215/45/15 size tires.

Ben Fenner fenfam at sc.rr.com
Thu Mar 3 00:27:27 CST 2005


The VW R32 Golf comes stock with 225/40/18 tires on 18x7.5" wheels. I
don't really see your rational for worrying about putting a 215mm tire
on a 177.8mm (7 inch) wheel when VW will but a 225mm tire on a 190.5mm
(7.5 inch) wheel. That's a ratio of 1.21:1 for my choice and a ratio of
1.18:1 for the Golf. Yes, the golf has a little bit more wheel per mm of
tire, but it also has a shorter sidewall aspect ratio. If the money
comes up, I'll be going with the 215/45/15 size. It doesn't look likely,
but that's a different issue all together.

-Ben Fenner

Jon Pennington wrote:
> I'm not sure that you'd want to put a tire that wide with such a short
> sidewall on a 15*7.5" wheel, nevermind a 15*7".  The tread on that
> tire is nearly 8.5" wide.


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