Mini 17" Tyre Wheel Advice
Discussion
OK, my car currently has 17" Pirelli run flats on it, the front two are almost out of life (just under 3mm) and I have a slow puncture on one of the reat tyres. I have therefore decided to replace all four tyres at once. To compound matters one of the front wheels is slightly buckles so I need to replace one of the alloys aswell. With this in mind I saw the following deal :-
http://www.wheel-base.co.uk/proddetail_fit.asp?pro...
With the Toyo tyres. Would that be a bad choice, are the Toyos run flat or normal ( I cant stand the handling of run flats but dont want to invalidate my insurance!
Any advice/links would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers
http://www.wheel-base.co.uk/proddetail_fit.asp?pro...
With the Toyo tyres. Would that be a bad choice, are the Toyos run flat or normal ( I cant stand the handling of run flats but dont want to invalidate my insurance!
Any advice/links would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers
porsales said:
OK, my car currently has 17" Pirelli run flats on it, the front two are almost out of life (just under 3mm) and I have a slow puncture on one of the reat tyres. I have therefore decided to replace all four tyres at once. To compound matters one of the front wheels is slightly buckles so I need to replace one of the alloys aswell. With this in mind I saw the following deal :-
http://www.wheel-base.co.uk/proddetail_fit.asp?pro...
With the Toyo tyres. Would that be a bad choice, are the Toyos run flat or normal ( I cant stand the handling of run flats but dont want to invalidate my insurance!
Any advice/links would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers
take a look at the following threadhttp://www.wheel-base.co.uk/proddetail_fit.asp?pro...
With the Toyo tyres. Would that be a bad choice, are the Toyos run flat or normal ( I cant stand the handling of run flats but dont want to invalidate my insurance!
Any advice/links would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers
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HTH

Vixta btw !
First don't even consider run flats, bin them completely - they destroy the ride!
Second, in my view 17s are too big for mini's, undoubtedly the cars run better on 16s and looks better, so don't write them off. I had 17s on my mini but got rid of them for 16s and it was easily the best thing I did.
Having said that the mini is being binned in favour of a Lotus in 2 weeks so the 16s will be sold if you are at all interested!
Second, in my view 17s are too big for mini's, undoubtedly the cars run better on 16s and looks better, so don't write them off. I had 17s on my mini but got rid of them for 16s and it was easily the best thing I did.
Having said that the mini is being binned in favour of a Lotus in 2 weeks so the 16s will be sold if you are at all interested!

If you want to keep it original I have a set of 17's for sale on ebay that are unmarked. In addition, the pirelli's were new all round 3k miles ago. See below for link:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&am...
You will get a very cheap set of wheels if they sell for around the price that they are currently up for.
Carl
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&am...
You will get a very cheap set of wheels if they sell for around the price that they are currently up for.
Carl
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