Stretched tyres on Jap wheels - QUESTION?

[cy88]

I am looking at some rims from Driftworks with a 5 inch lip. Their website says [bold]"A wheel and tyre package is available. We suggest a stretched 195/45/16".[/bold]

Being a bit thick here .... what does the "stretched" part mean? Is it going to look like those jap custom jobbies where the breadth of the thread part of the tyre is less than the breadth of the alloys?

What implications (safety or otherwise) are there for "stretched" tyres?

Many thanks

cy88

[r5gttgaz]

So it ends up looking like this.

[cy88]

So apart from scuffing them on curbs, are there any pitfalls?

[chevy-stu]

wide wheels to fill the arches without catching on the lip? and er... something... else ... maybe.. ???

[Pulsatingstar]

chevy-stu said:

wide wheels to fill the arches without catching on the lip? and er... something... else ... maybe.. ???

Less (ie none really) sidewall flex. Changes the handling a bit. But mainly it looks cool (as long as the car is super low and the offset is decent)

[cy88]

does this look cool?

[shouldbworking]

Hmm. Yes. If the world cool has been redefined to mean "very very bad"

[MrFlibbles]

shouldbworking said:

Hmm. Yes. If the world cool has been redefined to mean "very very bad"

I think it looks awesome!

[_Batty_]

cy88 said:

does this look cool?

is it yours?
can i have it

[cptsideways]

Yep it changes the handling, notably the swaying/wobble going from slip angle to traction. Makes the handling worse on the front though as the point of understeer is sharper.

Also it helps not shred the tyres on the lips of your wings when you fun fat wheels.

[chevy-stu]

cptsideways said:

Yep it changes the handling, notably the swaying/wobble going from slip angle to traction. Makes the handling worse on the front though as the point of understeer is sharper.

So, Good at the back, bad on the front... ?

[cy88]

OK, here's the picture from the Driftworks site, showing an MX5 with the said wheels - they fit straight on apparently.



Now I liked the look of that, but wasn't sure what they meant by "stretched tyres", so I had a look to see of I could find any other pictures of the same wheels - and I found the red one that I've already posted above.

The tyres on the black one look more normal than the tyres on the red one, no? I prefer that look (black car).

cptsideways, you seem to know what's what. Would you recommend putting this type of wheel on an MX5, where the car is just to be used for a bit of fun?

Edited by cy88 on Friday 20th October 14:20

[cptsideways]

A 195 tyre will be fine a boggo MX-5, any wider & it's no fun. Is your car a standard one or is the Bilstein equipped S model? the boggo ones have lots of wheel travel so you may get some scrubbage on the arch lips, if it's Bilstein equipped you'll be fine.

Pssst get a diff