Typhoon

Was thinking about getting a set of hyper black rims for my RX


The thing is, the roads in the UK are pretty rough. The ride on the stock rims is very good -- I was wondering what you guys think would be the max size I could go to with the custom rims without ruining the ride quality ?


Because the RX is a 4x4 will this mean that inherently you can get away with larger wheels without ruining ride quality as much ?



Hope the above makes sense !



Cheers

CK6Speed

iTrader: (1)

If ride comfort is a high priority I would stick with 18" rims. Not sure if you are running the stock 17 or 18. I'm one that had a lot of stiff sports suspension type cars so I don't mind a stiff ride at all and actually like a more firm suspension. However, I was able to tell a difference between my stock 17 and my 20" rims.

I would say 20" would be max and 19" probably wouldn't add too much comfort back into the car since you can run the same profile tires on either. With a thicker profile tire, you are running a higher over all diameter but even on my 20" rims with 50 series tires my speedometer was only off by a max of 2 MPH at 60 when measured with a GPS so I wasn't worried about it.

iKon_RX

for comfort and custom wheel. get 18x8.5 or 18x9 wheels with 245/55s. youll have better traction/grip on the road

DrasticLex

i agree with ikon. when i got mine it had 18's with 255/55. great ride. it will work well on rough roads. same combo was on another ride in nyc and trust me i dont think there are any worse roads than there!!!!

ZIN

I feel the comfort range is staying with in the 50mm's. I prefer not to go below 50mm. I have 19x8 rims with 255x50x19's and I do not feel the ride has changed at all as far as comfort.
You can see pictures of this set up on my thread. 2009 JUST PURCHASED.

CK6Speed

iTrader: (1)

Just for clarification. The tires sidewall prophile height is not represented in milimeters. It is represented as a percenrage (%) of the width of the tires tread. So, a 255/50/19 tire will have a sidewall height of 50% of 255mm or 127.5 mm.

Typhoon

Many thanks for the input

ZIN

GOTCHA!!