Stretch tyre look

[mayhem]

As presidenté of the balloon tyre club, I hereby decree stretched tyres to look poo and be impractical

senor presidente del la tyres a los ballonnos,

stretched tyres are practical, the help save the rear arches from schraping when running wide wheels.

:D

[sulphur]

Wide wheels and stretchies look the nuts. :D

[Sloth]

banded steelies and stretchies look the nuts. :D

edited for ya!!!:D

[MK999]

cos banded steels aren't actually wide wheels?

[sulphur]

Banded steels, deep dish...either way. Deep...wide...silly offest...stretch rubber = minted!:D

[mayhem]

i'm just wondering why its not used much in th uk.

you guys build mid-engined nova's, RWD nova's etc etc.you guys come up with loads of crazy engine stuff, why didnt anythink think of putting a smaller tyre on the rim, so you can run a nice wheel instead of holding on to the whole 6j et49 thing?

[novanova636]

its a good point. i personaly like the look. but the problem i have is i dont want to keep the car as standard as possible with a standard looking rim with it low low low and wide wheels with stretched tyres!!

[trix2702]

I run stretched tyres on my two vduds, 195/40/17's on 8.5s on my mk3 golf vr6turbo drive it hard makes no difference in handling, other one runs 215/35/16's on a 9" rim again no probs, Looked at getting some 8x14 sr steels (banded) that i know for sale with 185/50s and they looked awsome for our current nova project.

[novanova636]

where abouts are they for sale? how much?

[mayhem]

8x14 banded steelies is wide banding steelies drops the offset in huge steps. thats going to need some serious arch mods.