General Wheels ago ago!

[Nello]

Don't spend £500 on a Claws, get them on ebay for half the price!

3 spokes, yeah heard a lot of folk say that, but i see 6 spokes?

I've been lookin; on ebay for months! No sign of any below £500?!
Know of any more anywhere?!!

I know theres actually 6 spokes but the design reflects a 3-spoke style - looks superb on the Stilo - Not since the tele-dial alloys on my 156 Alfa has there been a nicer factory alloy for an affordable car!

 

[timr69]

The speedbumps in Fife are a total nightmare. They seem to favour those silly ones that you can straddle.
Even at standard ride height my MW scrapes on about half of them

 

[activematt]

The speedbumps in Fife are a total nightmare. They seem to favour those silly ones that you can straddle.
Even at standard ride height my MW scrapes on about half of them

You need wider wheels then! i live on a road with those straddle bumps, when i first lowered my car i used to bottom out on all them (makes a lovely noise), then i got the larger wider wheels and now the very inside of the wheel goes over the bump and i just clear them

 

[1.8Stilo]

wot size rubber you runing now then matt on your 17" wheels :chin:

Do you get better grip with them being wider? As ive been finking about goin for a wide set next time to hopefully improve the grip abit more? I know the guy with the yellow 1.6T has done this too!

 

[PNL]

The original 195/65/15 stilo wheel has a diameter of 634.5 mm and a circumference of 1193.34mm Now by going up to 17" wheels with 215/45/17 your diameter goes down by 9.2mm and your ground clearence also decreases But by fitting 225/45/17 tyres to the 17" wheel you only loose 0.2mm off the original diameter and your speedo is also near to the correct reading.

 

[1.8Stilo]

i currently have 215-45-17 fitted to mine as i was told they were correct? So 225-45-17 will be better then if they give a more correct reading on my speedo... Sorry to hijack this thread stiloboy do you have 225-45-17 then phil? are you the same matt? wont i need spacer for this size though?

 

[PNL]

i currently have 215-45-17 fitted to mine as i was told they were correct? So 225-45-17 will be better then if they give a more correct reading on my speedo... Sorry to hijack this thread stiloboy do you have 225-45-17 then phil? are you the same matt? wont i need spacer for this size though?

If I decide to go for the 225/45/17 this will give me a further 5/8mm clearance under my front spoiler and will make a great difference in getting on and off my drive over the abortion of a run in the council are refusing to maintain the minus side is the cost of the tyres as a decent tyre will be around the £100/130 a corner :bang: and when I checked the other day I was told that spacers would not be needed

 

[StiloBoy]

How exactly can tyres of 215-45 have a smaller rolling radius that 225-45? They ain't taller they are the same, 45! Its just the width thats different!

Thats like saying your boaby is longer because its an inch wider than it used to be! It doesn't compute!

I know you get 215 and 225 in 40 aspect! Is this maybe what you mean?

 

[Koa]

How exactly can tyres of 215-45 have a smaller rolling radius that 225-45? They ain't taller they are the same, 45! Its just the width thats different!

Thats like saying your boaby is longer because its an inch wider than it used to be! It doesn't compute!

I know you get 215 and 225 in 40 aspect! Is this maybe what you mean?

Isn't the 45 part a percentage of the width though, and not an actual size ?

 

[Stu DemonD]

Isn't the 45 part a percentage of the width though, and not an actual size ?

Yeah, that is what I thought as well

 

[PNL]

Well I would have thought so as well but I was browsing a tyre site and they had the rolling radius calculator there and that's what it said so you tell me do I need to go for another visit to Specsavers wellI just checked again and here it is.
215/45/17 Dia of 625.3mm and 1964.44mm Circumference

225/45/17 Dia of 634.3mm and 1992.71 Circumference
a difference of 28.27mm in Circumference

 

[StiloBoy]

Aye this could be true enough, but i'd have though 45 was 45 was 45! If its more it would be 46!?

Isn't the 45 = 45% of the original high of what a no low profile tyre would be! i.e. 90 equals 90% of a normal tyre height?

 

[wolfracepunto]

45% of 225 is more than 45% of 215

 

[Koa]

Taken from the car maintenance bibles for a 185/65/13 tyre


185

This is the width in mm of the tyre from sidewall to sidewall when it's unstressed and you're looking at it head on (or top-down). This is known as the section width.
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65

This is the ratio of the height of the tyre sidewall, (section height), expressed as a percentage of the width. It is known as the aspect ratio. In this case, 65% of 185mm is 120.25mm - the section height.

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13

This is the diameter in inches of the rim of the wheel that the tyre has been designed to fit on. Don't ask me why tyre sizes mix imperial and metric measurements. They just do. Okay?

 

[PNL]

Well thank god at least I havnt gotta go to Specsavers

 

[StiloBoy]

Cool! Cheers for that! Might get 225's next time round then! However one thing i've noticed, i'm still pulling under 3000rpm at 70mph....

 

[1.8Stilo]

Might get 225's next time round then!

Same here, i think ill get 225 next time when the tyres are due but that wont be for about another 12K lol! Although ill probaly have brought a GP by then

 

[wolfracepunto]

However one thing i've noticed, i'm still pulling under 3000rpm at 70mph....

And your point is??!!

 

[Stu DemonD]

I am still in 3rd at 70mph, pulling away, as I aim for 6300 revs.....

 

[bozzy]

I am still in 3rd at 70mph, pulling away, as I aim for 6300 revs.....

Ill bet the mpg's a bit different though?