Ford Puma- what are the tallest tyres that I can safely fit?

[Shaw Tarse]

Cheap Fiesta wheels?

[dvance]

I would imagine it would depend on what wheels/alloys you want to pair them with. Are you going to be using the standard 15s?

[rhinochopig]

Why not just fit some snow tyres in that size. If our Sportka shod with standard sized winter serie 3 can cope with the worst of N Yorkskire moors winters then I'm sure a Puma could.

[y2blade]

Shaw Tarse said:

Cheap Fiesta wheels?

how does that reply tell Hora what the tallest tyres he can fit is?

sorry Hora, I can't help either

[Shaw Tarse]

y2blade said:

Shaw Tarse said:

Cheap Fiesta wheels?

how does that reply tell Hora what the tallest tyres he can fit is?

sorry Hora, I can't help either

It doesn't, sorry.
Not sure is he could fit smaller wheels & higher profile tyres?

[y2blade]

hora said:

rhinochopig said:

Why not just fit some snow tyres in that size. If our Sportka shod with standard sized winter serie 3 can cope with the worst of N Yorkskire moors winters then I'm sure a Puma could.

What tyres are those? Google wont find.

I don't need a 4x4 this winter. Although I fear the road salt more

every Puma I looked at (five of them) was rotten as a pear (as Mike Brewer would say)
I've given up on the idea of one for now

[rallycross]

I prefer slightly higher profile and narrower winter and on the puma I ran 185/65/15's for 2 winters and it was fine coped fine with the snow in Scotland.

[rhinochopig]

hora said:

rhinochopig said:

Why not just fit some snow tyres in that size. If our Sportka shod with standard sized winter serie 3 can cope with the worst of N Yorkskire moors winters then I'm sure a Puma could.

What tyres are those? Google wont find.

I don't need a 4x4 this winter. Although I fear the road salt more

Sorry serie 2 not 3 http://www.pirelli.com/tyre/gb/en/car/sheet/winter...

They were very very good in the snow and the wet - certainly at a depth where the front of the car was acting as a snowplough. Enough for a chap out playing in a FC Landy to ask how the f*ck did you get that thing up here (onto the moor tops) when I pulled up next to him with two labs in the back.

Out of the three winter tyres I've tried (Falken - on an Evo, and some BFGs on an X-Trail, which I slid of the road with) they were by far the best on snow.

[Chapppers]

puma arches are HUGE, so I imagine you could probably get away with anything up to 195/70 R15. My question would be: why??? it'll make it really slow!

[lowdrag]

I don't know if the Puma has a full size spare, but if it has then the oversize tyre is unlikely to fit in the boot. I had this with a VW once when I fitted oversize tyres. A PITA.

[Chapppers]

I tried to post this before my work laptop crashed earlier:

Anyway I think my winter tyres are 185/60 R14, and they do a pretty good job.

lowdrag said:

I don't know if the Puma has a full size spare, but if it has then the oversize tyre is unlikely to fit in the boot. I had this with a VW once when I fitted oversize tyres. A PITA.

Puma spare goes under the boot so almost guaranteed not to fit.

Edited by Chapppers on Tuesday 20th September 19:19