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Tyres

Posted: 18 Nov 2007 11:12 pm
by bungle
Hi, I have the pleasure of driving a volvo 340 at the moment, at the moment it has 155/80/13's on the back and i find they have little grip in the wet, would it be possible to fit 175/70/13's as I would like a bit more grip.

Thanks :)

Posted: 18 Nov 2007 11:19 pm
by kaos
do belive those are what i have on atm, but am struggling to find any more my last one i got was a partworn.

but these damn 13's are way to skinny for me..

Posted: 18 Nov 2007 11:22 pm
by bungle
try www.etyres.co.uk, free fitting :)

so can i go ahead and order them??

are you sure they would fit, width wise??

thanks

Posted: 18 Nov 2007 11:22 pm
by SteveP
Should be no problem - the 175 wide tyres were fitted to the same rims

Posted: 19 Nov 2007 02:47 am
by Chris_C
SteveP wrote:Should be no problem - the 175 wide tyres were fitted to the same rims
You really sure on that... esp on later cars, 155's had the trademark 300 rims with 5 sets of double cuts, and 175's had plain steels with full size hubs caps

Posted: 19 Nov 2007 10:38 am
by SteveP
Yep, I know that in 1982 DL's had 155's and GL's had 175's on the same rims. Doubt they'd change the wheels for such a small increase in width on the later models... Surely early Mk3 360's (I'm thinking GL's) had 175's on them double 5 cut rims?

Posted: 19 Nov 2007 11:38 am
by bungle
so will they fit??

Posted: 19 Nov 2007 11:21 pm
by blackbox
yes they will fit but i have 185/60-14 on mine and grip in wet is still hard to find but its fun to drift in the wet tho

Posted: 20 Nov 2007 01:50 pm
by classicswede
I used to run on 185/60 13's with std steel wheel. They did make quite an improvment.

Posted: 20 Nov 2007 03:07 pm
by kaos
just checked mine mine arnt 175's as i thought must be the skinny 155/70R13, but i have 175s in my stock pile will deffinitly fit as ive had 6j 14"s under those arches with no problems:)