Need Help Choosing

[Sammie]

um in a shadow and a black

[Flash89]

im am into the mesh type rims, i dont like the three spoke type either.

shadow is also a good colour to have

[Sammie]

orderd my wheels this morning cheers for the opinions they said should be here within this week il be sure to post pics

sam

[mitchy_]

what colour did ya order?

[sam5709]

hey sam,

just wondering were your getting these rims from, the grey ones look sick, and i wanna persuade my dad to get them for my birthday, mind if i ask how much they cost?

cheers

[Sammie]

grey mitchy ! with 235 tyres all round should arrive within this week, hopefully cause i gotta go race in bunbury this weekend and sam its like 2000-2300 depending on what tyres u want and size etc

[mitchy_]

good work son.

what tyres are on it? you mind find 235's on the back arent sticky enough with cheaper tyres

[Sammie]

bugger i forgot lol but there sumthin nexon nex sumthin lol but apprently there good we asked the guy for the best

[mitchy_]

nexen's?

i think they just recently changed their name to something else (mum had them on her VY commy, and one got a puncture and was replaced with the same tyre, but a different name)

they are an average tyre from what i saw on mums car.. but yeah, you might struggle for traction with 235's in that brand.

that said, you might be a bit more 'nice' to your tyres than other skyline (ab)users.

[Sammie]

oh bugger the guy said they were good damnit there was a choice of falken and hankook but the guy said these are best for peformance cars so i took his work hope hes right well see in a few days

[mitchy_]

it all depends on what model of each tyre they use aswell..

cheap falkens ive heard are shit, but then the more expensive ones ive heard to be quite good.

i personally have hankook K104 Sports on my skyline, 255 rear, 235 front.

id prefer maybe a 265/275 rear to maintain a bit more traction, but apart from that they are a decent tyre for the $1000 the set cost me.

ps: do you use msn sammie? might make our multitude of conversations a bit easier (my address is [email protected])

[Ska]

Go out and buy a couple of cans of VHT Caliper paint, gold.

There is a DYI for this, but with grey mags I reckon painting the calipers gold would look sweet as!

Congratz on the choice of rim, as I said before, it didnt really matter which colour as I love that style!

[sam5709]

it all depends on what model of each tyre they use aswell..

cheap falkens ive heard are shit, but then the more expensive ones ive heard to be quite good.

i personally have hankook K104 Sports on my skyline, 255 rear, 235 front.

id prefer maybe a 265/275 rear to maintain a bit more traction, but apart from that they are a decent tyre for the $1000 the set cost me.

ps: do you use msn sammie? might make our multitude of conversations a bit easier (my address is [email protected])

hey is there a thread or sumthin about tyres, i know sounds stupid but what the hell is this 235 tyres n stuff??? (omg neighbours is starting im out!)

[mitchy_]

hey is there a thread or sumthin about tyres, i know sounds stupid but what the hell is this 235 tyres n stuff??? (omg neighbours is starting im out!)

i sat there for a good 2-3 minutes re-reading your post.. then i realised it was the *other* sam... i was wondering why you were aksing what '235' meant, when you were telling us before..

the '235' etc, is the tyre width.

normally a tyre will be given a code (im not entirely sure what to call it actually), but it will looks something like this..

235/45R17

what that means, its a 235mm wide tyre, with a 45 profile rating, and it suits a 17" rim.

now the width is obvious the width of tyre that touches the road, the wider the tyre, generally the more grip you will have, but it will cost more, and you need wider rims to get really fat tyres onto them.

the 17" part is pretty easy aswell.. 17" rims uses 17" tyres.. got that?

the profile part is a bit of a prick.. what the '45 profile' means the sidewall is 45% of the width of the tyre..

so the sidewall on this particular tyre is 235 * 0.45 == 105.75mm high.

this by itself typically doesnt mean alot.. but it helps when you run different width tyres on the car (ie, you may have fatter on the rear.. like myself, and many others do)

say i want to use a 255 on the rear.. i need to find a 255 tyre that will have the same sidewall height as a 235 tyre, so to do that, i get 105.75 / 255 == 0.414, so approx '40 profile' is needed, meaning you need to use a 255/40R17 to obtain the same rolling diamter as the 235...

now that you are probably well and truely confused, i think my job is done.

[Flash89]

i think the 45 is from the rim to the end of the tyre, the tyre rating is written like "v90" etc, it can be all sorts of numbers.

[mitchy_]

i think the 45 is from the rim to the end of the tyre, the tyre rating is written like "v90" etc, it can be all sorts of numbers.

yeah, thats what i said.

the '45' etc is the hieght of the tyre sidewall, expressed as a percentage of the tyre width.

and yes, they can tag a letter and 2 numbers on at the end which will give you the tyre (speed) rating aswell.

i didnt think that was really necessary as all of them will perform well above the 110km/h speed limit on wa's streets.

[sam5709]

awww awsum cheers guys, before i used to lok at tyres and think 'oh yeh a round piece of rubber' haha, but not any more now i will actually know what people are talking abou when it cums to tyres, mayb i should get a job at bob jane

[mitchy_]

do that.. then get me cheaper tyres.

[sam5709]

do that.. then get me cheaper tyres.

haha yeh, my mate works at tyre power and i only get a 2 percent discount on tyres when i go there, and he gets 5 percent discount wtf is up with that

[mitchy_]

2% on a $1000 set of tyres is a free lunch! (well 2 free lunches.. you can shout me too )