Stupid people!

[S800VXR]

Im advertising a cheap tire for sale on Piston heads - 225/40x18 is the description and I get some idiot asking "is it low profile mate" FFS - there are far to many inbread idiots out there now! Also wants to know if I will drive to London to drop it off!.... ummm no.

[JAG-R8]

Apparently there's one born every minute!

[stuartL]

It'll my mate Pete, he's new to car mods. I told him he had the wrong tyres on!

[crisisjez]

Apparently thats the new craze (For the guys that have their asses hanging out of their trousers I expect)

[MarcoVXR]

Shame you cant see the gold spinners from that angle

[stigmundfreud]

how to make your car handle like an austin alegro whilst looking as cool as a kapa shell suit. Only thing about the pic I find surprising is its not on some council estate doing drug runs.

[Bonnie and Clyde]

stigmundfreud said:

how to make your car handle like an austin alegro whilst looking as cool as a kapa shell suit.

[RedWings]

I don't get it. Is this tyre low profile then or not?

[Paul.H.]

RedWings said:

I don't get it. Is this tyre low profile then or not?

Redwings - the answer is in the numbers!! Th tyres size numbers tell you the depth of the side wall, in this case 40 which is 40mm, approx 1.5" - not the lowest profile you can get...the next size is a rubber band! 225 is the measurement across the tread & 18 being the diameter.

[phillg]

Paul.H. said:

RedWings said:

I don't get it. Is this tyre low profile then or not?

Redwings - the answer is in the numbers!! Th tyres size numbers tell you the depth of the side wall, in this case 40 which is 40mm, approx 1.5" - not the lowest profile you can get...the next size is a rubber band! 225 is the measurement across the tread & 18 being the diameter.

Are we sure about this?
Is the 40 part ( as in this example )not a % of the width size.

[RedWings]

Paul.H. said:

RedWings said:

I don't get it. Is this tyre low profile then or not?

Redwings - the answer is in the numbers!! Th tyres size numbers tell you the depth of the side wall, in this case 40 which is 40mm, approx 1.5" - not the lowest profile you can get...the next size is a rubber band! 225 is the measurement across the tread & 18 being the diameter.

Sorry I was being sarcastic

[Glyn84]

phillg said:

Is the 40 part ( as in this example )not a % of the width size.

Yeah that's right. In the case of the 'Ro you have 245/35/R19 tyres. The profile is 35, so that's 35% of 245.

[Paul.H.]

I stand corrected, sorry!

[anonymous-user]

and it's officially called the 'Aspect Ratio'....