Re: nice pic of dumb things people do


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Posted by Desoto61 [138.162.0.43] on Friday, May 01, 2015 at 09:22:31 :

In Reply to: nice pic of dumb things people do posted by mikey stone [71.39.211.46] on Thursday, April 30, 2015 at 19:52:14 :

You keep saying that but there are a decent number of people running those tires on these rims with 0 problems. Search here and on PWA.

Charles Talbert's been running 315 75R16s on all his rebuilds for years (see the link below), and he's not known for taking huge risks, which is why he still runs all of them on stock rims, since he has yet to find an aftermarket manufacturer that DOT approves their custom rims. That size also recommends an 8-10" wide rim.

Will the manufacturer recommend it? No, but then again they don't technically make a tire that fits that configuration, and the main reason they're going to tell you no is because they haven't tested it themselves in our configuration and it's legally safe to just say no vice spend millions to test it for an odd use case like ours.

There are limits, you should understand them, but there are more variables here than just do the number match. Lots of people doing lots of modifications that are by no means "approved" by the manufacturer of those parts, doesn't mean it can't work and work well in another application, this message board is full of them.

Just understand that any tire place has an easy out should there be any problems, it's not an approved application, but then again you won't find many that are.



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