Will I fail my MOT with these?

[Kentish]

In readiness for some track work I have replaced the wheels, fitted wider tyres, done a little lowering and increased the offset on one of my cars but now my front wheels - well it's actually just the tyre is perhaps 2mm outside the arch - the wheels are actually inside but the shape of the tyres even though they are low profile is obviously slightly proud of the wheel face and this makes the tyre about 2mm outside the arch.

Do you think I'm likely to fail the next MOT?

[H2DaE]

tread outside the arch is a fail, part of the reason Euro modders stretch skinny tyres on wide wheels

Edited by H2DaE on Wednesday 12th March 10:58

[abdulaziz]

I wonder how MINIS get away with it, and some 4x4's

[Kentish]

H2DaE said:

tread outside the arch is a fail, part of the reason Euro modders stretch skinny tyres on wide wheels

Edited by H2DaE on Wednesday 12th March 10:58

Ah OK, that means I could be OK as I have no "tread" outside the arch - it's just the slightly rounded shape of the sidewall that protrudes and by such a tiny amount too.

I think I'll drop down to either a 225 instead of 235 or a 35 instead of 40 when I next change tyres.

[Kentish]

abdulaziz said:

I wonder how MINIS get away with it, and some 4x4's

Yes, I often look at examples of both of those and wonder the same thing

[H2DaE]

the minis have either arch extensions or they change the wheels for the MOT/use a dodgy MOT place

4x4's have arch extensions?

[eltax91]

Kentish - there was a thread on this topic this very morning.

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[Kentish]

eltax91 said:

Kentish - there was a thread on this topic this very morning.

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

Yes, I just saw that after posting - doh!

Cheers!

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[Kentish]

From reading the other post it looks like I'll be OK.