Hey, gang. Hoping to pick the brains of those more knowledgeable than myself:

I am looking into tires for my new wheels. Wheels are 17x8 et35 Team Dynamics and they are going on my 2003 wagon sitting on H&Rs and KYBs. I know the knee jerk would be to get 225/45, but I was hoping to get a bit more meat on there.

Has anyone put 245/40 tires on 17x8 et35(ish) wheels on their lowered GD wagon? If so, what kind of modifications did you need to make (fender roll, etc)? As mush as possible, I don't want to go nuts with the rear camber (it's at -1.0 in the rear right now).

Any CONSTRUCTIVE and APPLICABLE insight is appreciated. Everything else will be greeted with an eye roll and snort of derision, then ignored.

Cheers!

 

How much body work are you willing to do?

With that set up you'll have a crappy looking rear of the car unless you pull.

My advice would be to roll your front and rears. You could have a very slight pull put on them. And run 235/40's.

I have 235/45's on my wagon right now with a 17x7.5 with a similar offset. Little higher. I rubbed like CRAZY in the rear. So bad that it grabbed a hold of the metal rear lip and pulled it down into the tire. Nearly destroy a brand spanking new tire.

And I'm only on pink wagon springs... higher than you.

You WILL rub like no other with that set up without a pull even with retarded trendy hipster flush camber settings.

Camber is not the solution to crappy wheel/tire fitment. Period. You want a car that has massive understeer and looks like **** with -4 degrees of camber and none in the front... buy a honda.

Seriously... if you're talking about pushing the size on tires then it sounds like you're more like me... you want a car that handles. That means fitting your wheels/tires/camber to what you want. Not the other way around.

Those wheels will fit. Those tires will fit. With a huge pull.

If you don't want to pull and you want to run reasonable and performance camber settings. Run 235's and roll.

I rub on huge bumps or when I'm weighed down but I am on 45 series tires. If I was on 40's I'd be fine. If my wheels were 8's I'd probably jump to 245's and deal with minor rub or pull more.

 

I've had the tires and wheels on for about 2 weeks now. There was no rubbing whatsoever in the front, but the backs did rub when loaded. I rolled the rear fenders straight up and now only rubs when the backs are really compressed-- loaded down, more than 2 passengers, flying off dips on the highway, etc.

 

Awesome. That's pretty much what I would have expected.

Go any lower in offset and you have to sacrifice tire. Too much higher and you have to start sacrificing rim width. I think you have a pretty solid set up.

Post up some pictures...

I've been considering going to an 8.5 and running 245's.


Did you go 245 or 235? 235 I would have though nearly no rubbing. 245 you're probably about the same as me... just a little bit on huge bumps at speed or when loaded down.

 

245/ 40 DWS. I have pictures up in "build" thread, but I can put some more up.