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Old 06-05-08, 06:10 PM
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Default Another quick tire question.

Will 235/35/19 and 275/35/19 tires fit without rubbing for wheels that are 19x8.5 +35 and 19x9.5 +36? The drop would be on Tein CS pretty much on the lowest setting. Thanks in advance.

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yes they will rub.
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The front or the rear would rub? or both? What options of tire sizes do I have?
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deff need smaller tires i have same size and rub with no drop

edit: fronts will rub for sure rear mome than likely
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dont go with 275/35, it should be fine with 265/30 . and as for the front use 225/35. Trust me i had those tires size on mine's , it put me in the rubs cityz, with the drops of tanabe. Bad idea
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are you doing or have you done any fender mods??

rear will work if you roll the fenders....265/35 will give you more play. I run the same tires front to rear with no troubles with 1.6 drop front and 1.2 drop in rear. I can go lower in the front but I would bottom out where I live all over the place. I do not see any problems with your tire sizes....
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Again... thanks for the help guys. I don't want to do any fender modding. Ok... so 235/30/19 or 225/35/19 in the front and 265/35/19 or 275/30/19 may work? or just be safe and go 225/35/19 front and 265/30/19 in the rear?
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225/35/19 (f)
265/35/19 (r)

this is what I would do since you do not want to mod the fenders.

I have 235/35-19 front with no mods and I do not rub but I am only lowered 1.6" not sure how low you will go. I will find a pic for you. the rear I did roll the fender but 265/35 I would not have needed to roll. I only rubbed on big dips and bumps before I rolled the fenders on the 275/35 in the rear.

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^^

I am 19x8.5 +33 front also since I forgot to mention that, rear I am 19x10 +38

hope that helps out
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Ummmm I just wanted to add this here because I was doing some tire research myself and some other forum posted this link:

http://www.1010tires.com/TireSizeCal...?action=submit

I thought this would be the appropriate thread to put this in. Hope this helps someone.
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thing is thou, if you firm up your coils you wont rub on big dips BUT~ you'll loose the lux ride, its a balance between looks n comfort... i prefer looks OF COURSE if you get Airrunner... then you'll have NO PROBLEMS what so ever
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^^I just decided that you give me a good deal on your TeinSS I will keep my car then you can get some air for your ride
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Big thanks to Passnu and llama. Seems like I'll be safe with getting 235/35/19 front and 265/35/19 rear. If Passnu was fine with 235/35/19 with +33 offset, I should be fine with the same width with +35 offset, but a bit lower. I'll just stiffen up the coils a bit more like llama said. Or should I just stretch a bit just to be on the safe side... decisions decisions
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ok one thing about the 'big tire' vs 'vip stretch'... the vip stretch is just plain sexy BUT~ potholes/taking a curb at a wrong angle/parallel parking and scraping the curb WILL damage your rims... the big tires wont have that problem of rim damage BUT you can mess up your fenders/rub n blow a tire/everything with big tire depends on drop/offset/mod the fender or not...

its the balance for any type of 'look' other than stock that you need to be aware of and plan for it in advance. 'drop/offset/rim size/look you want' BEFORE you buy the tires/fender modding... its usually the smart way, but hey who wants to do things the 'smart' way anyway right? POUND UM, BROKE UM, FIX UM and POUND UM AGAIN
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