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My car will soon be needing new tires. It has the standard 205/60/16.
I was thinking of "moving up" to 215/55/16. Would this be possible?

<smith_bp101@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> My car will soon be needing new tires. It has the standard 205/60/16.
> I was thinking of "moving up" to 215/55/16. Would this be possible?

What are you trying to accomplish by changing tire sizes?

On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 09:13:56 -0800, smith_bp101 wrote:

> My car will soon be needing new tires. It has the standard 205/60/16.
> I was thinking of "moving up" to 215/55/16. Would this be possible?

Check here: http://www.miata.net/garage/tirecalc.html


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On Dec 22, 9:52*am, "Piso Mojado" <dev@null> wrote:
> <smith_bp...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> news:81aaf03f-22c0-4437-a40e-c1d7452c9d69@e4g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
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> > My car will soon be needing new tires. It has the standard 205/60/16.
> > I was thinking of "moving up" to 215/55/16. Would this be possible?
>
> What are you trying to accomplish by changing tire sizes?

A little better handing via a better sidewall/treadwidth ratio.

On Dec 22, 10:08*am, Dan C <youmustbejok...@lan.invalid> wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 09:13:56 -0800,smith_bp101wrote:
> > My car will soon be needing new tires. It has the standard 205/60/16.
> > I was thinking of "moving up" to 215/55/16. Would this be possible?
>
> Check here: *http://www.miata.net/garage/tirecalc.html
>
> --
> "Ubuntu" -- an African word, meaning "Slackware is too hard for me".

Thank you very much!

smith_bp101@hotmail.com wrote:
> On Dec 22, 9:52�am, "Piso Mojado" <dev@null> wrote:
>> <smith_bp...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>
>> news:81aaf03f-22c0-4437-a40e-c1d7452c9d69@e4g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
>>
>>> My car will soon be needing new tires. It has the standard 205/60/16.
>>> I was thinking of "moving up" to 215/55/16. Would this be possible?
>> What are you trying to accomplish by changing tire sizes?
>
> A little better handing via a better sidewall/treadwidth ratio.

you don't get much benefit if the rim is not also wider - you'll be
better off buying a top brand tire and sticking to original size.