Porsche 996 C4 - Winter Tyres

[Sbloxxy]

I have a 2003 Carrera 4 and its a car my wife uses pretty well every day. This is our first winter with the car and I usually fit winter tyres on her daily driver. We live in Northumberland and will spend quite a bit of time working in Scotland over winter, so winters are always a big help.

Problem I have is that I have GT3 rims fitted and while the finding winters for the front is no problem, the current tyre size on the rears are 295/30/18 and I can't find winter tyres to fit. Can anyone tell me what other size winter tyres may fit (if any)? It might give me more chance of actually finding a set of winters.

[David W.]

Is a cheap second set of S/H rims out of the question?

[996Keef]

265/35 18 - is the usual on 996

[grumpynuts]

As above, 265 is the width for 996 winters on a 10j rim. I have them on my 996 C4S, goes anywhere all year round. You should already have the correct rim sizes on a C4, mine looks a bit skinny on the rear on its winters, so I use a 15mm spacer to give it back its stance.

[m444ttb]

The link below takes you to the official Porsche sizes for summer and winter tyres:

https://www.porsche.com/uk/accessoriesandservice/c...

[ATM]

I wouldn't worry too much about the correct sized tyres I would just get any winter tyres if you're so inclined.

265 35 18 do exist in winter - I've had a couple.

You could always switch to 17 inch but the tyres in the correct sizes are quite expensive as they're not common.

[m444ttb]

While picking my own tyre size wouldn't concern me from a driving point of view you may find tyre places won't fit them I had that problem trying to get some Michelin PS4 on the rear of my 996 C4 and had to go with PS2 instead. This said, I'm having some new winter tyres put on my BMW this weekend and they're the wrong size too. Hopefully I'll get away with that as the tyre coming off will be the same (wrong) size.

[Fast Bug]

I've got 295/35 18 on my C2 with 11" wide rear wheels

[ATM]

m444ttb said:

While picking my own tyre size wouldn't concern me from a driving point of view you may find tyre places won't fit them I had that problem trying to get some Michelin PS4 on the rear of my 996 C4 and had to go with PS2 instead. This said, I'm having some new winter tyres put on my BMW this weekend and they're the wrong size too. Hopefully I'll get away with that as the tyre coming off will be the same (wrong) size.

I'd go to a different tyre place.

It might not be possible but if you can remove the wheels and drive them to the tyre place in another car then I've found any tyre place will fit any tyre to any rim without question.