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- March 11 2007 : 8:13a
| I went with 18's and the stock sized tires on mine.
If you are going to lift it any so you could run bigger tires I would do 20's, other than that I think I would go with the 18's for thew fact you will have more rudder between the road and rim  | |
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- March 11 2007 : 9:05a
| 18's would be cool but can I get rubber that will make it so I dont have to reprogram the pcm for speedo?
Use this tire size calcultor to find the 18" tire equal to, or close enough to your stock tire.
http://www.miata.net/garage/tirecalc.html
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- March 11 2007 : 11:03a
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Those will look good as 18s, I think. You didn't say what your stock tire size is, but I imagine you could do a plus 1 tire/wheel combo and be just fine.
As for tire brand, I'm a big fan of BF Goodrich. For your uses, the All-Terrains sound like a good match. Great tread life, super quiet on the road, and they are decent in light offroading. If you're going to go out in the mud, the BFG Mud Terrains are better for that, but you'll trade off a little (not much) noise on the road.
As far as reprogramming the speedo, I'll give you the old "if you've gone this far..." argument. Most tire places (and all dealers) can reprogram the speedo for a nominal fee. Or, if you want to step up a little more, you can buy a power programmer and do it yourself, along with a few other tweaks that you might want to do. But that's something else to think about. | |
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- March 11 2007 : 11:42a
| Going with a bigger rim doesn't necessarily cause more weight. Nor will going with a bigger rim cause you to have to reprogram.
If you go with a bigger rim you can still select a tire that's the same height as your stock size - and THAT is what you need to consider. Use the tire size calculator that Toolmaann posted up. Enter your stock size and then play around with the sizing of the 'new' tire until you get one that's really close the stock height.
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- March 12 2007 : 1:32p
| your speedo will not be thrown off as long as you don't increase the overall diameter of the stock tire..you also shouldnt notice any power loss provided you don't go up in tire size as well but even if you do ...it's not going to be that bad. dealers put freakin 20s on their trucks/suvs stock..
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