What size alloys and tyre?

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Re: What size alloys and tyre?

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exactly...for luxurys... so 14" wheels obivuosly aren't the best for performance...can upgrade or downgrade in size by an inch and still keep that performance
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Well I'm happy to hear that. :D
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but 14" wheels wont affect performance where as 15" will ive seen it....
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aye mayb acceleration by like 0.3 secs r sumhing :shock: but not overall performance as u r stating
but doesnt reali matter...im bored now :meh:
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Well I've just put 15"s on mine and I don't think it's affected the performance that much. It feels ever ever ever so slightly slower when accelerating, but it doesn't seem to wobble as much when I go round a corner so I'm happy! :)

It has affected me speedo though, before when my speedo said 30mph, I was actually only doing 27mph. Now I'm doing 29mph so it's almost spot on lol!
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with bigger wheels ur car accelerates slower but gets ihgher top end speed.
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Do you think I'd save fuel in that case, as I spend most of my driving doing 70mph on a motorway? :?
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u should as the engine is doing less work to keep the car at that speed... how wever doing more work to get the car up to that speed... lol
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Just what I thought/was hoping lol! :D
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