What wheel size fits best?

[Sean Barry]

Ok ive bought the silver 92 jap for 2k and it looks like a lasses car. I think black alloys will give it a better look. It's on standard mazda 16" at the monment. How big can you go? Do you need to keep the same overall diameter? I understand that the overall wheel weight is best unchanged.

Halfords do a sets with tyres for adout £500 and I am tempted but. Can you trust halfords to spec the correct size weight, offset, etc.

[Sean Barry]

Hi Sean

keep away from halfords. The tyres they sell with the wheels are poor quality.

hope this helps

[Sean Barry]

Yes I know, but they are only £500. I'll only be using the car to potter around in at work. I just dont want to look like im driving our lasses car.

Edited by Sean Barry on Tuesday 24th July 21:04

[DennisTheMenace]

i thought i had locked all the doors to the special padded rooms ......

[MX-5 Lazza]

What do you mean only £500???

I paid £330 for a set of (not cheap) Rota Circuit 10 and another £180 for a set of Goodyear F1 GSD3 so that's £510 for top quality very light wheels and top quality tyres!

This is the sort of thing the internet and haggling is for. Do a search on the web for the wheels you want, find somewhere that supplies them, phone them and negotiate a price either without tyres then get top quality tyres from one of the online stores or from a good local tyre dealer.

TopGear is very good for wheels - and you get a better price when you phone and ask...