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Women are going to be a dime a dozen one you have it set up like that. i'd think to the future and invest accordingly.
This viral video from 15 years ago had me put 5x100 jeep snowflake 16 inchers on my corolla. Got my first taste of riding high and working my way up ever since.
I am limited to the wheel sizes available cheap used locally, just like my cars. I'll probably keep numerically with the decades and get into >30 inchers around 2030.
Chick magnet.Bigger is better.
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I'm sure that's going to be fun raising the center of gravity. Probably makes it more likely to tip over.I found spring spacers that will give 1-2" suspension lift for $6. I will put them on this weekend to get clearance for bigger wheels in the future.
My Porsche has factory 20” forged rims. My Escalade has factory 22” wheels. The reason they are so large is partially to clear huge brakes. They aren’t for looks only. The Caddy is the quietest, best riding auto I’ve ever had. The Porsche is the fastest. I’ve never had cracked wheels or flats.I take it you're not an engineer. Bigger wheels are for looks only. There's tons of engineering reasons why they're bad. That's why you get cracked rims and flat tires all the time the bigger you go with the rim. Ride comfort also suffers.
Consider yourself lucky. Part of that depends where you live and what the roads are like. The roads are awful here. We got potholes with snow and rain that are bone jarring and will knock your alignment off once you hit them. Not to mention pop your tires and crack / bend your rims.My Porsche has factory 20” forged rims. My Escalade has factory 22” wheels. The reason they are so large is partially to clear huge brakes. They aren’t for looks only. The Caddy is the quietest, best riding auto I’ve ever had. The Porsche is the fastest. I’ve never had cracked wheels or flats.
OP mentioned using size 265/35 tire with these 22" rims, so that would make sidewall height about 3.65".Too much focus on the rim diameter and not on overall diameter and side wall height. A 275-50 will have the same sidewall height regardless of the wheel diameter, in this case 5.4" 275-50/16 & 275-50/24 will be the same sidewall height. Anything >= 5" is good.
Bigger wheels=less tire to absorb road shock. You can break a wheel, suspension components, and create rattles, etc ,etc ,etc.Giant rims may be even more important than led lights if you want your car to be mistaken for something younger. I decided on 22" rims to replace the stock 16", so now it actually looks like a car from the future.
Some online experts state giant rims will break your car, citing increased rotational mass making your engine and tranny work harder while stressing suspension components.
I have an ecu tuner to correct the speedometer, do double the recommended fluid changes with good stuff. Is there anything else to recommend? I am thinking I should replace suspension components with aftermarket upgrades.
I like my 14" on compact and 15" on mid size. 16 is ideal for most wagons and SUVs IMO. They probably go big because the cars got fat, not because they need them big enough to clear the calipers.I remember in the 70's, small cars had 13" rims, mid-size were 14" and full size cars used 15". Now even my little Versa has 15's. And used tire places don't even have many of those to choose from.
Take it all now!