hawaiibake

Ok, so a guy is willing to sell me an almost new set of 35" cooper stt's for $180. They are really good looking tires but they need 17" rims which are impossible to find used and I won't pay for new ones.

Lots of 16.5" around here tho, so can I mount a 17" wheel on a 16.5 rim???

Thanks in advance

Dave

Elton

umm no you cant

Jay351

Nope. Thats why they have 17" rims

malteserunner

iTrader: (1)

You could mount a 20 inch tire on a 16.5 wheel, but like the 17, it wont hold air well.

abecedarian

Nope. Don't even try.

malteserunner

iTrader: (1)

Love the avatar abe!

abecedarian

Thanks.

BMC

For the price of those tires in almost new condition as you say, I would be more than willing to buy a set of 17" in steel wheels.

Your gettin $800 Plus worth of tires for $180.

You can buy bran new black steel wheels for around $90 a piece or you could hang on to the tires and try to find some used ones. Search craigslist every day, you'll find some.

I definitely wouldnt pass up that deal on those tires though.

scuba

Umm..

camo31_10.50

yea im with scuba...i dont think you can mount a 17 in wheel on a 16.5" rim??..lmao

and no you cant mount a 17" tire on a 16.5" rim...

abecedarian

actually you can. Even if you can get it to hold air (it's only 1/4" difference in overlap on the bead so it's possible), getting the rim adaquately centered in the tire is near impossible. Then relatively aggressive corners and bumps can cause the bead to unseat resulting in some bad things. Similar problems occurred back when Ford was using the 16.5" wheel on their trucks and shops were trying to mount 16" tires on them and they were exploding either during mounting or on the road.

hawaiibake

LOL!!
Ok, OK,
I get these ideas of what i want and I just want to get someone to say "yes, it is possible" so i can do what i wanted from the start. cooler heads prevail in the end
Looks like what i really need is a new set of 315 75 r16's for my wifes 4runner. it rained hard today and it was all over the road. she rolled the last one allready so dont want to make that mistake twice!!

ozziesironmanoffroad

yes its possible, and it might even hold air, but it will BLOW explosively either during mounting (thus having the tire buster possibly go into a coma or DIE!) or blow while driving, which could cause an accident. so NO, do NOT attempt this. tire shops wont even do it.
ive done that once, except i mounted a 16" tire on a 16.5 wheel... thing blew up when i seated the bead. threw me across the shop and knocked me out for a couple mins. luckily didnt do any damage to me, but still. why take the chance?