Tires, Just wanna confirm Options

[bongo monkey]

Hey guys, I'm running stock Pedrinis with 165SR15 tires. The tires are all leaky, and deflate within days of inflating. so new tires are in order. I want to get the biggest, best tires that I can fit in a stock wheel configuration (no fender roll).

I'm thinking about 195/65HR15s. Will these fit? Do you have any better recommendations? I heard 205's will occassionaly not fit, so I don't want to bother with having to return the tires if they don't fit.

To my naked eye, the wheels seem to have a slight negative camber.


Edit: Oh and by the way, does anyone know what the aspect ratio of the 165SR15 Michelin XZX tires are? So I can calculate speedo accuracy.

[bongo monkey]

Any large bends should show up by spinning the wheel. A failure to properly balance, or too much weight required to balance will be an indication of bent wheels, but badly bent wheels should be visible with the naked eye. Hold a small pointed object(pencil or such) at the top of the wheel well close to the rim and observe closely while spinning the wheel. There can be both sideways bends and out of rounds. Your leakage could also be just inside of bead on rim being terribly cruddy and dirty.

Good luck, Curt

I took the worst wheel off to check, and on the inside part, there were 2 large bends. No wonder my tires were leaking.

The bends look like I could hammer 'em back into shape... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smash.gif)