Amalan Posted January 1, 2007 Report Share Posted January 1, 2007 ok well i wanna get some rims in the future and this guy told me that a good tire to put on 20s on my car would be 245/40/20 in the front and 275/35/20 for the rear... well im a tire noob i have no idea what that means so can someone explain these numbers to me i just dont want thick tires preferably low profile tires Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pokey Posted January 1, 2007 Report Share Posted January 1, 2007 The first number is going to be the width of the tire....the second number will be the height of the tire...the third is of course the rim size. The first two numbers are measured in MM, the last, you should know, in inches. You would only mix and match tire size ir you require a wider tire in the rear, or you just wanna look different. You can find a shop and they will tell you what tire is best matched for your driving style and what tires will be closet to the stock tire size, so that way your speedometer isn't off by too much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amalan Posted January 1, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 1, 2007 The first number is going to be the width of the tire....the second number will be the height of the tire...the third is of course the rim size. The first two numbers are measured in MM, the last, you should know, in inches. You would only mix and match tire size ir you require a wider tire in the rear, or you just wanna look different. You can find a shop and they will tell you what tire is best matched for your driving style and what tires will be closet to the stock tire size, so that way your speedometer isn't off by too much. sorry yeah this is from pep boys guy here in cinci ive been emailing him. so whats a good height of the tires with a low profile look? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majorpayne Posted January 1, 2007 Report Share Posted January 1, 2007 what kind of car is it? i like a 255-30-20 that what my brother ran on his extreme and it looked really clean but they dont have alot of sidewall so you can go pothole hunting in them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amalan Posted January 1, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 1, 2007 2005 745Li http://www.tirerack.com/tires/SelectTireSi...=Standard+Model http://www.tirerack.com/tires/CompareTireR...g=Y&RunFlat=All all the tires for my car blehhhh i hate all those designs and yeah the design of the thread also helps set the rims/car off too so its a tad important these were the tires i really liked http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires.jsp?ti...e1=yes&place=15 cheap so i dont mind changing them often and they look really nice but the biggest size they make for the rear is 275/30/20 you think that would be ok and should i probably get 245/35/20 for the front then or something? it seems kinda logical to me to make the tires the same height in the front and back i dunno but it would make more sense to have a higher height in the back than the front so that shit confuses me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernesto Posted January 1, 2007 Report Share Posted January 1, 2007 ok well i wanna get some rims in the future and this guy told me that a good tire to put on 20s on my car would be 245/[glow=red,2,300]40[/glow]/20 in the front and 275/[glow=red,2,300]35[/glow]/20 for the rear... well im a tire noob i have no idea what that means so can someone explain these numbers to me i just dont want thick tires preferably low profile tires 40 is thicker than 35...A 35 is usually considered low profile. The higher the number the more rubber on your tire...The smaller the skinnier the tire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernesto Posted January 1, 2007 Report Share Posted January 1, 2007 ok well i wanna get some rims in the future and this guy told me that a good tire to put on 20s on my car would be [glow=red,2,300]245[/glow]/40/20 in the front and [glow=red,2,300]275[/glow]/35/20 for the rear... well im a tire noob i have no idea what that means so can someone explain these numbers to me i just dont want thick tires preferably low profile tires The 245 & 275 is the width...The last number is common sense...(20). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amalan Posted January 1, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 1, 2007 haha you just kinda repeated southern pokey but its all good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernesto Posted January 1, 2007 Report Share Posted January 1, 2007 haha you just kinda repeated southern pokey but its all good :poster_oops: Didn't read any one else's post but yours ;D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pokey Posted January 1, 2007 Report Share Posted January 1, 2007 I think the 275/30-20 in back and the 245/30-20 in front would be a good offset size for your car. You may want to go with a 40 in the front in case of bigger bumps. It wouldn't be a big difference and most folks wouldn't be able to tell without looking at the tire size anyways. EDIT: I had 295/45-20's on my truck. This is what they look like in real life, instead of on a website. The ones you're wanting wouldn't be much smaller than these. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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