Smallest wheel size?

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xs2man

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Hi,

Just bought a P38, and I'm pretty sure the 20's that are on it, while looking good in the summer, will be useless in the winter.

So whats the smallest wheels I can put on it and bang on some winter tyres, or grabber tyres (or whatever they are), and what size tyres for these wheels?

What wheel specs do the P38 take also? PCD? ET? etc...
 
xs2man said:
Hi,

Just bought a P38, and I'm pretty sure the 20's that are on it, while looking good in the summer, will be useless in the winter.

So whats the smallest wheels I can put on it and bang on some winter tyres, or grabber tyres (or whatever they are), and what size tyres for these wheels?

What wheel specs do the P38 take also? PCD? ET? etc...
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They came with 16's as standard and 18's as options. The consensus seems to be that the 16's are the best for grip.
General Grabbers are a tyre make.
 
Cheers guys. Just downloaded RAVE there.

So I can fit any 16" wheel with a 5x120 PCD and ET around 57 with CB 72.6mm?

Now to hunt down a set then.
 
xs2man said:
Cheers guys. Just downloaded RAVE there.

So I can fit any 16" wheel with a 5x120 PCD and ET around 57 with CB 72.6mm?

Now to hunt down a set then.
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Most Rangie breakers will have sets. Well worth a good haggle because most people are looking for the larger sizes.
 
4" of snow is nothing, if you don't drive like a tool, a normal road car can cope with 4" of snow. So I'm not surprised a Rangie on 20's coped okay. I'd be surprised if you struggled.

I hope we get more snow this winter, all of the people who called me a baby polar bear killer and the like, you know the sort, drive vehicles that require massive amounts of CO2 to be generated to build the battery packs, suddenly want to be my best friend because I can pull them out of the hedge or up that very slight hill that their heavy, underpowered milk float cannot climb.
 
Bix said:
I hope we get more snow this winter, all of the people who called me a baby polar bear killer and the like, you know the sort, drive vehicles that require massive amounts of CO2 to be generated to build the battery packs, suddenly want to be my best friend because I can pull them out of the hedge or up that very slight hill that their heavy, underpowered milk float cannot climb.
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:hysterically_laughi:hysterically_laughi
 
Bix said:
4" of snow is nothing, if you don't drive like a tool, a normal road car can cope with 4" of snow. So I'm not surprised a Rangie on 20's coped okay. I'd be surprised if you struggled.

I hope we get more snow this winter, all of the people who called me a baby polar bear killer and the like, you know the sort, drive vehicles that require massive amounts of CO2 to be generated to build the battery packs, suddenly want to be my best friend because I can pull them out of the hedge or up that very slight hill that their heavy, underpowered milk float cannot climb.
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I can tell you that 80% of "normal" cars couldnt get around in the 4 inches we had last year.

Quite funny watching the BMW's , Mercs and other rear wheel drives sliding all over the place

You feel quite smug driving past all the stuck cars ;)
 
2.0_hippo said:
I can tell you that 80% of "normal" cars couldnt get around in the 4 inches we had last year.

Quite funny watching the BMW's , Mercs and other rear wheel drives sliding all over the place

You feel quite smug driving past all the stuck cars ;)
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Think the worst winter I've suffered since moving to Yorkshire was my first winter in Yorkshire as I woke up to this. Luckily I managed to get it out and left it at the top of the valley before this happened. Only vehicle that went up or down for 2 months was the game keepers quad.

It was quite funny this year, in March we had a small flurry up here, just enough so the road was white but not deep enough to cover the soles on my boots. Being Yorkshire there are many hills, there are 3 good'ens on my way home. Approaching each one I came across lines of cars who were waiting one at a time to climb the hill, but with no speed so would only get half way and then slide back down. I couldn't believe the levels of dumb. So went round everyone grinning all the way. It was then I noticed every 4x4 in the queues started to do the same thing as though no one was brave enough to do it first. But by comparison it was no where near as bad, although great weather to move houses in. Linkage. I regret not getting someone to take photos of the struggles we had getting a Luton box van up there.

The biggest laugh was a guy in a late 90s 3 series who was using curbs to steer his car. He'd boot it until it went sideways then bounced off of the curb. He can't have had a very healthy diff by the time he got home.
 
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2.0_hippo said:
Won't 16" wheels look funny on such a big motor ? Lol
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Question of taste I suppose. Mine's on 16s, Yokohama Geolandar AT/S 255/65, looks great to me. Anything that looks as far as possible away from an Evoque I suppose. Saw one of those yesterday with absolutely massive chrome jobs and rubberbands on. Never seen anything so ridiculous. :cool:

Just remember if you're changing down from 20s you will probably need to get rid of spacers and so on.
 
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