195/50/15's on a 4.5"?

Twiggy · Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 9:22 pm Post subject: 195/50/15's on a 4.5"?

anyone running this size on that width? Will they fit?

buggpower · Samba Member Joined: July 25, 2006 Posts: 928

195/50's are same width as a 195/60 except taller. I have 195/60's on my car right now with 4.5" wide rims. I personally dont like it because they balloon out but not really bad, but since 195/50's are shorter you might not have a big balloon look like i have.
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blankmange · Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 3:16 am Post subject:

same here - running 195/60's on stock 4.5 steelies with no problems...
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Bryan67 · Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 6:38 am Post subject:

Not true. 195/50`s are actually wider than a 195/60. Measure them sometime.
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Glenn · Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 6:42 am Post subject:

Bryan67 · Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 6:50 am Post subject:

Hers an example
http://www.tirerack.com/tires/Spec.jsp?make=Yokoha...mp;place=8
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Erik G · Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 9:06 am Post subject:

195/50 on a 4.5 looks terrible.
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vwfye · Samba Member Joined: April 15, 2000 Posts: 7755

you will wonder why your car feels 'squishy' inthe turns. also, you actually have a greater chance of rolling the bead of the tire off of the rim in a hard defensive/evasive turn. read that as 'very bad'.
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Twiggy · Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 12:05 pm Post subject:

yeah I did a little more reseach after I posted this and found out they'll have the "baked bread" look.
Also that size might be a bit to low and throw off my gearing too much in my bug.

Bryan67 · Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 4:57 pm Post subject:

You can run a 185/55 or 175/55 with no problem though. Or even a 185/60.
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clarkbre · Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 6:05 pm Post subject:

I run 175/65/15's on the front of my bug. They're 24" tall, a little wider than stock and have a fairly wide footprint on them. They ride really nice too.

ivsamhell · Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 8:02 pm Post subject:

i used to run 195/50 up front, slammed and narrowed 4" on stock wheels.

i like the look and the handling. just bought some 145/65s to try out.

Skim · Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 11:45 pm Post subject:

Before they started coming out with the smaller width low profiles, I ran them on 4.5 fuchs, I didnt care for the look but thats all they had at the time.

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Notice how the 195x50 bubbled out on the side wall...

Personally nowadays I like the 165x45 on a 4.5. Its like a match made in heaven. Plus they are cheaper than 195x50's
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Stevepi · Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 10:55 am Post subject:

I have in my possession a 185/55 and 195/65 and the 185s are wider than the 195s.
In fact when I measure them the 185 measures close to 195 and the 195 measures 185.

These are dirt cheap tyres made in china.

glandnut · Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 5:28 pm Post subject:

Skim · Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 3:43 am Post subject:

blankmange · Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 4:31 am Post subject:


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