Thread: 55.2-59 Wheels on a dropped axle
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Old 05-15-2021, 11:43 AM   #7
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Re: Wheels on a dropped axle

That trailer axle is hanging down below the scrub line. Other than meeting scrub line regs buying larger wheels is strictly up to your personal taste.

I just remember watching young guy carrying a brand new 20 inch wheel and tire that the rim was bent on and the tire was cut on that still had the tits on the tread into the tire store from his truck that had three 20's and the spare on it. It didn't look like he had had the wheels on the truck more than a couple of days and his mom was with him with a real sick look on her face so she may have been driving the truck when it hit something.

My BMW has 17's on it and it handles fantastic but rides rougher than a cob. My Cad DTS had 17's and you could feel every tar strip. Those low profile tires come with a price and that is they make the ride a lot rougher and you stand a lot bigger chance of o f destroying a wheel and tire each inch you go up.

When I was in Wichita on the 4th of July in 2014 heading back to Park city after getting a flat fixed at the Goodyear store I watched a kid pull out of a tire store in a Caprice in the middle of town with a brand new set of donk wheels and tires, He was one light ahead of me and 4 blocks down the street he was on the side of the street out of the car looking at his bent rim. He had hit a pothole while crossing the tracks and bent the rim and ruined the tire and the tire still had the paper sticker on it.
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