wider tires can only help you with the PERFORMANCE of your car , and as bennihill did say, and this is true...wider tires will also increase your chances of hydro-plaining, so dont shift the cars weight around when ure rippin through small streams at 60+ mph.
p.s. sorry to everyone for starting the ruining of the first "wider tires" post
They increase the risk of hydroplaning? I wonder how that works. I noticed 255 Nittos are a lot stickier than 215 BFGs when taking turns.. Im hopping the treading difference is enough to keep me from hydroplaning.
< Message edited by SPARTAN VI -- 8/17/2006 4:31:01 PM >
They increase the risk of hydroplaning? I wonder how that works. I noticed 255 Nittos are a lot stickier than 215 BFGs when taking turns.. Im hopping the treading difference is enough to keep me from hydroplaning.
I noticed that too my old tires were 255 and they seemed to stick good. now on 215 i think? not sure but very thin they lose grip all the time. i just bought really thin dunlops for fun because i can throw up smoke on anyone who trys to street race me o-O
everyone probly knows what im about to say, but, i dont think the 2 or 4 inches wider tire will make a difference, but just stating pricipal ( to give credit to benni ) just imagine driving through 6 inches of water at 100 mph on 3 inch wide tires. say i know what im talking about and 100mph and 6 inches of water equals 100 psi lifting up your car, now imagine how much more you car would be lifted out of the water with tires that are 12 inches wide. Let me know if you start a shallow water road racing course, i will sell a kit so you can put bicycle tires on ure car....lol jk
sorry for being an ass powerprodigy (and for contributing to the downfall of the other thread), but i just had to get the fact through that there places where the weather conditions exist and people are stupid enough to go that fast. hell, the germans even race on that sh*t! they usually get .5 to 1.5 inches of rain a day or every other day (and i'm talking about the thickness of the water on the autobahns)! thats why no german when i was there would go above a 200 on width. i had to be stupid when i was over there and buy 235's for my opel calibra just to show off and be cool and it sucked a$$. i couldn't even go over 60 without hydroplaning every few seconds. thats the way i learned. maybe i just suck while driving in wet weather, who knows? i know i'm above average on dry roads.
anyways, sorry again man.
p.s. maybe the problem was that i had toyo proxes street drag tires.
Aquatreds are great in rain(had a set on my sable) and they do make a 235x55x17,anything bigger I dont know.Usually narrow tires are better in rain and snow.Wider the better on dry.
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