Rims / Snowy Climate -

[persianKID]

I'm in snowy upstate NY and the winters can be pretty nasty.. Want to do replace the factories with some nice looking rims, but since I need to drive in some nasty, snowy, icy conditions wondering/worried whether I should get rims - or if I can manage to play it sife by a smaller rim - like a 16 inch.. Doe anyone have any experience with this situatioin / rims in snowy climate????

Thanks -

[Nick]

get some nice rims with summer rubber

and keep the stock steelies/alloys, buy some good snow tires and put them on there, or keep your 4 seasons on there...

[DrewsCam]

Get new rims for summer and change to stealies over winter, thats what i do

[persianKID]

Yah - that's what I'm thinking... how much you think I should expect to pay (reasonable) for someone to do a good job of putting on the rims and then taking off an putting on the steelies?

[Xevuhtess77]

thats something you can do yourself...... just jack the car up and unscrew the lugnuts, take the wheel off, put the new wheel on, and screw the lugnuts back on.

[yota]

Yah - that's what I'm thinking... how much you think I should expect to pay (reasonable) for someone to do a good job of putting on the rims and then taking off an putting on the steelies?


r u serious?!?!

[persianKID]

If I put new rims on - 17 inch from the small factories do I have to adjust anything - for example won't the new wheel size fuck with like the speedometer or odometer..?

[CamNub]

Just put on the nice rims on the summer...Then put the bad ones on in the winter and let those rims get fucked by the salt.

Go look at that tirecalculater to see how much the tire will mess with the speedometer (it shouldn't do too much)....I wish i had the link.

Make sure you have the correct offsets and that the rim can actually fit ur car. If it can you should be able to put it right on.

[CamryMax]

Originally posted by CamNub

Go look at that tirecalculater to see how much the tire will mess with the speedometer (it shouldn't do too much)....I wish i had the link.

Here is the link: http://www.miata.net/garage/tirecalc.html

[CamNub]

Originally posted by CamNub
Just put on the nice rims on the summer...Then put the bad ones on in the winter and let those rims get fucked by the salt.

Go look at that tirecalculater to see how much the tire will mess with the speedometer (it shouldn't do too much)....I wish i had the link.

Make sure you have the correct offsets and that the rim can actually fit ur car. If it is the correct offset, you can you should be able to put it right on.

[DrewsCam]

At first i had this done was 20 bucks to take off rims, mark them and but back steelies

But this summer i put my own rims on, wasnt hard at all just got dirty

Good luck

Also what rims u getting?

[persianKID]

All I know is I wanna get some white ones mos tlikely - 17inchers .. got a white 2000 camry with tinted windows ,clear lights all around - but am hoping the white rims won't make the car too white I think it should look good though..

what'd you think..