what type of tires will look nice and low profile? 245/45 r17 or ?

 

If you want lower profile tires, you should upgrade wheel size. If you keep your stock 17's and just go down to a 45 series, it'll look a little off and your speedometer/odometer will be fast.

 

Title of this thread thru me off

 

lol 17s? Really??

 

i mean i have 19'' on

 

So you have 19" wheels with a 40 series tires on them? Those are already pretty skinny...you could run wider tires with a shorter sidewall like 245/35/19 and speedometer/odometer changes would be negligible but I think the 40's are good..

 

i love skinny tires but wasn't sure what would be very skinny 245/45 or 245/35 as u said ( sory i don't really know much about cars but i just love to make it look nice ^^)

 

Your stock tires (These are the 19" forged rays wheels you have, right?) are 225/40/19 front and 245/40/19 rear. You can use a skinnier tire at 255/35/19 front 275/35/19 rear which will keep diameters the same to keep odometer/speedometer changes negligible as possible. But I'm not sure if those tire widths are too wide for stock wheels. I'm sure a coupe guy could chime in and say so. If they are too wide for the stock wheels, you could go with 35 series tires that aren't as wide however there will be higher speedo/odo changes.

 

My tires on my OEM 19's are 225/35/19 and 245/35/19

 

alright. thanks a lot !! and what type of tires r u using atm ? 255/35 as well ?

 

Np, well I'm a sedan guy but I'm running the 18's from the coupe, stock sizes at 225/45/18 and 245/45/18...the rears are a bigger diameter than my stock 215/55/17s so my speedometer is slow by about 1.6% or something like that.

The guy who posted above you, those tires are skinnier than yours, it will fit fine on your rims but your speedometer will be too fast by a decent amount. I use this tool to calculate tire diameter differences http://www.miata.net/garage/tirecalc.html

 

No the tires im using are the ones I just listed. When I need new tires though ill run 245/35 and 275/35

 

Yeah I just told him the ones you listed above were skinnier than his. I recommended the 245 an 275s too him too, might that be too wide for stock rays tho?

 

i confused the highest number is the skinny tires will get or lower number ?

 

No i dont think so. A guy on our facebook group is running 280s in the back and looks alright but im not gonna do that. I think 275s is probably the biggest.