Winter tyres?

Any

mikey72 wrote: »

I'd been looking for a while. You may be better off paying to get them put on your own rims this year.

Given that my current tyres are 185/60R15 84H what am I exactly looking for?
Just any 15" rims or do I have to specify further?

Just making sure I am widening my search far enough but not buying the wrong thing..:)

Lum

Any wrote: »

Not just "be able"...
I have Suzuki Swift and I cannot come accross single set of wheels on ebay!

Any ideas where else to look?

Scrap yard?

That said, not sure I fancy crawling about in the cold with a jack and wheelbrace changing bloody wheels over.

sunshinetours

Any wrote: »

Not just "be able"...
I have Suzuki Swift and I cannot come accross single set of wheels on ebay!

Any ideas where else to look?

Are there any Suzuki Swift owners forums? I found some real useful info on BMWland for my car espeically on winter wheels.

What you may be able to do is find a non suzuki wheel that has same (or very similar) bore and offset range and use those ie from a Ford for example.
Will take more homework and research but may be worth it for next year perhaps and as Mikey says get some winters swapped over onto your current wheels this year

flyingscotno1

Any wrote: »

Not just "be able"...
I have Suzuki Swift and I cannot come accross single set of wheels on ebay!

Any ideas where else to look?

Do Suzuki Swifts not have an unusual tyre size- one person appeared in motoring help section because he and his Suzuki dealer couldn't get any tyres for the Swift Sport.

Indeed the Continetal website seems to recommend staying on Winter tyres all year round rather than summer ones if it is an option.

http://www.conti-online.com/generator/www/uk/en/continental/automobile/themes/car-tyres/winter-tyres/why-winter-tyres/why-winter-tyres.html

Any

flyingscotno1 wrote: »

Do Suzuki Swifts not have an unusual tyre size- one person appeared in motoring help section because he and his Suzuki dealer couldn't get any tyres for the Swift Sport.

Indeed the Continetal website seems to recommend staying on Winter tyres all year round rather than summer ones if it is an option.

http://www.conti-online.com/generator/www/uk/en/continental/automobile/themes/car-tyres/winter-tyres/why-winter-tyres/why-winter-tyres.html

Umm, I don't know... I never had a need to get new tyres for it yet!!

I always thought that you change over because winter tyres due to it's compound wears of quicker...

But that Continental site seems to say otherwise...

Lum

sunshinetours wrote: »

What you may be able to do is find a non suzuki wheel that has same (or very similar) bore and offset range and use those ie from a Ford for example.
Will take more homework and research but may be worth it for next year perhaps and as Mikey says get some winters swapped over onto your current wheels this year

If you're planning to do that, here is a useful site

http://www.alloywheels.com/fitmentguide.asp

You need to get wheels with the same PCD and offset as your car, and the bore size needs to be at least as big as the original bore size for your car. If you get a bigger bore size, you'll need to buy an adaptor called a "spigot ring" to bring the hole down to the correct size, though can get away without this if they are fitted carefully.

Since you say it's new and you've never changed the tyres I'm presuming the car is from 2005 or newer in which case the sizes are:

PCD: 4x100
Offset: 35 - 42
Bore: 54.1

I actually have a set of 4 16" BK Racing allow wheels that would fit that car. They're somewhat scruffy and curbed but work fine. I bought them last Februrary to use as winter wheels, they were sold as being multifit 4x100 and 4x114.3 but they are actually 4x100 and 4x108. My car needs 4x114.3. They come with both wheel nuts and wheel studs, and spigot rings suitable for a Honda. I'm looking for about £100 for them.

Any

Lum wrote: »

If you're planning to do that, here is a useful site

http://www.alloywheels.com/fitmentguide.asp

You need to get wheels with the same PCD and offset as your car, and the bore size needs to be at least as big as the original bore size for your car. If you get a bigger bore size, you'll need to buy an adaptor called a "spigot ring" to bring the hole down to the correct size, though can get away without this if they are fitted carefully.

Since you say it's new and you've never changed the tyres I'm presuming the car is from 2005 or newer in which case the sizes are:

PCD: 4x100
Offset: 35 - 42
Bore: 54.1

I actually have a set of 4 16" BK Racing allow wheels that would fit that car. They're somewhat scruffy and curbed but work fine. I bought them last Februrary to use as winter wheels, they were sold as being multifit 4x100 and 4x114.3 but they are actually 4x100 and 4x108. My car needs 4x114.3. They come with both wheel nuts and wheel studs, and spigot rings suitable for a Honda. I'm looking for about £100 for them.

What does PCD means please?
But my current set is 15"? How come it would fit 16"?

Yes, my car is 58 reg

Arfa__

I've also got a Zafira, which is front wheel drive. If I was to put winter tyres on, is it essential to get winter tyres on all 4 wheels? Or could I just put them on the front pair and still get reasonable benefit?

countrybum

what about these......
http://www.which.co.uk/news/2010/11/snow-socks-or-winter-tyres-238011

Lum

PCD is "pitch centre diameter"

You have 4 holes for the wheel nuts. PCD measures the distance between them. The higher the number the further they are from the centre of the wheel.

16" wheels will fit a car with 15s, though you need a narrower tyre to make up the difference. To be perfectly honest this probably isn't what you want to do as most people go to bigger wheels to bling up their car a bit, so it puts your insurance up. I'd just go to a scrap yard and ask for some 15" wheels from a Swift, Wagon R, Baleno, Esteem, Ignis or Liana.