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Post by Boxer6 on May 30, 2017 14:27:55 GMT
A colleague was on Blackcircles to order new front tyres for her Twingo earlier, and it offered that there are TWO different sizes on the same car; 165/65 R15's on the front and 185/60 R15's on the back.
All seems a bit strange to me - any other odd-tyred cars out there?
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Post by Tim on May 30, 2017 14:34:36 GMT
3 out of 4 of mine have different sizes front to rear.
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Post by Martin on May 30, 2017 14:34:54 GMT
There are loads of examples with wider rears than fronts and iirc one example that had wider fronts than rears (RS3).
I assume it is one of the rear engined Twingos?
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on May 30, 2017 15:17:07 GMT
Not unusual - my Lexus IS had 225/45s on the front and 245/45s on the rear.
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Post by Tim on May 30, 2017 15:43:02 GMT
Not unusual - my Lexus IS had 225/45s on the front and 245/45s on the rear. Your 320 should have 225s front and 255s rear. |
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Post by LandieMark on May 30, 2017 15:57:17 GMT
The TVR has staggered sizes. 225/50R16 on the rear and 205/55R15 on the fronts. I could up those to 245/45R16 front and 225/50R15 rear as those are what the 500s ran.
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Post by grampa on May 30, 2017 17:08:19 GMT
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Post by Boxer6 on May 30, 2017 21:11:03 GMT
A colleague was on Blackcircles to order new front tyres for her Twingo earlier, and it offered that there are TWO different sizes on the same car; 165/65 R15's on the front and 185/60 R15's on the back.
All seems a bit strange to me - any other odd-tyred cars out there?
I can understand wider profiled tyres on RWD performance cars, even if they are road cars, but not on a 1-litre FWD dodgem! |
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Post by Roadsterstu on May 30, 2017 21:32:44 GMT
Isn't it a 1 litre RWD (and rear engined) dodgem?
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Post by Boxer6 on May 30, 2017 21:55:09 GMT
Isn't it a 1 litre RWD (and rear engined) dodgem? Ummm . . . .  Still NOT a performance car though!  |
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Post by johnc on May 31, 2017 6:49:37 GMT
It will have narrower tyres at the front to ensure that it understeers and that the back never gets the better of the front in normal driving. The Smart is similar.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on May 31, 2017 7:32:34 GMT
Not unusual - my Lexus IS had 225/45s on the front and 245/45s on the rear. Your 320 should have 225s front and 255s rear. You're right! Never noticed that. |
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Post by Roadrunner on Jun 3, 2017 8:21:11 GMT
The Benz has wider and lower profile tyres at the rear.
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Post by Martin on Jun 3, 2017 8:36:30 GMT
The 5 Series saloon has wider rears (275 vs 245) in M Sport trim, but the estate has 245s all round, which means my 535d has narrower rears than a 318d. Not an issue though, traction is surprisingly very good and much better than it was in the 330d estate I drove (255 rears).
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