Low profile 14's?
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Robert060379

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15,754 posts

214 months

Wednesday 31st March 2010
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Planning a brake conversion and need to fit 14's to my car. Sadly the 185-60-14's on the wheels at the moment rub the inner plastic tim on any more than half lock. Anyone know of a set of low profile 14's I can use? Thanks.

die fahrt

1,046 posts

226 months

Wednesday 31st March 2010
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umm, 185/50 or 195/50?

e.g. yoko A539.

SmoothRB

1,700 posts

203 months

Wednesday 31st March 2010
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How about stretch some 175's?

hotmelt

861 posts

204 months

Wednesday 31st March 2010
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Put the original, better feel

Robert060379

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214 months

Thursday 1st April 2010
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Only found 185-55-14's so far for the sake of 5mm it's not worth bothering with I'll find some smaller disks.

Deluded

4,968 posts

222 months

Thursday 1st April 2010
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55 does not mean 55mm.

185 is the tyre width in mm. 55 is the height of the tyre sidewall in a percentage of the width. so the side wall height of a 185/55 is 101.75mm, or just over 10cm. the sidewall height of a 185/60 is 111mm. so a difference of just under 10mm.

you can get 175/50s (bridgestones) for around £50 a corner. 185/50s (yokos) for around £45 a corner. 195/50s for around £50 a corner and you used to be able to get 195/45 and even 195/40 (continentals) for around £65 a corner.

Have a look on Mytyres.co.uk. They sell loads of sizes. Just set tyre type and speed index to "all" before searching.



Edited by Deluded on Thursday 1st April 08:51

Robert060379

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Thursday 1st April 2010
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Thanks for that. I'll look into it before deciding what disks to use.