First, some background story:
I wanted to get some 18" rims for my summer tires on the BMW.
A guy who leased a 2011 328 BMW sold his set of GMAX AS03 225/40R18 tires on 18" copycat M3 rims that he bought when he got the car. The tires were shot 2-3 months before returning the car, so he put the General Tire on them. I thought that it was the 8.5" rims.
I did not put too much attention on that point when I bought the set (he told me than he drove same car as me for 3 years with this configuration (same size all around to be able to rotate front and back)), but I am now one week to change the wheels and I am second guessing this idea.
You can see some rims have some scratches as the rubber cannot protect the rim since it is about 20mm narrower than the rim.
My questionning is about to drive on rubber narrower than rim wheels?
Do you have to lean less on the tires in the curbs to avoid ripping the sidewalls of the tires or even the rims? The GMAX AS03 have soft sidewalls.
Any other precautions to use this kind of configuration?
I still have two choices:
- Drive the wheels as they are (with precautions if needed) and try to found a solution in 3-4 years.
- An about other 600$ solution would be to buy two 255/35R18 tires and put them at the rear, so only two tires, the front ones, will have this weird configuration.
The best solution (almost like winning the lottery) will be to find someone with the same rims, but the front ones, the 8.5", so we could exchange two of his front against two of my rear.
Thanks for any help on this matter.
I wanted to get some 18" rims for my summer tires on the BMW.
A guy who leased a 2011 328 BMW sold his set of GMAX AS03 225/40R18 tires on 18" copycat M3 rims that he bought when he got the car. The tires were shot 2-3 months before returning the car, so he put the General Tire on them. I thought that it was the 8.5" rims.
I did not put too much attention on that point when I bought the set (he told me than he drove same car as me for 3 years with this configuration (same size all around to be able to rotate front and back)), but I am now one week to change the wheels and I am second guessing this idea.
You can see some rims have some scratches as the rubber cannot protect the rim since it is about 20mm narrower than the rim.
My questionning is about to drive on rubber narrower than rim wheels?
Do you have to lean less on the tires in the curbs to avoid ripping the sidewalls of the tires or even the rims? The GMAX AS03 have soft sidewalls.
Any other precautions to use this kind of configuration?
I still have two choices:
- Drive the wheels as they are (with precautions if needed) and try to found a solution in 3-4 years.
- An about other 600$ solution would be to buy two 255/35R18 tires and put them at the rear, so only two tires, the front ones, will have this weird configuration.
The best solution (almost like winning the lottery) will be to find someone with the same rims, but the front ones, the 8.5", so we could exchange two of his front against two of my rear.
Thanks for any help on this matter.