Needs help with alloy wheels!

[vnbluesea]

I'm looking to buy a new alloy wheels, but I dont know which size of wheels will fit into my car tires. A tire size is 205/65R15. Can someone tell me which size of wheels that I need to search and which brand is good! My car is Toyota Camry CE V6' 99.

Thanks.:)

[R-34]

No need to look any futher visit www.trdusa.com for more information or click on the link that i gave below with TRD.

[ConChimSe]

go to www.tirerack.com, this is the cheapest one around.

[ConChimSe]

oops, a comma extra. Try this now www.tirerack.com

[Nam]

Yeah, as CCS mentioned, tirerack.com has great services...at great price, at least that's what I hear from others.

Good luck,

Nam

[R-34]

1) Tire's Grip
Most obviously, the selection of tyres is decisive to cornering grip. Car engineers have nothing to do with the friction of the tyres, which is determined by the compound and texture. However, they can choose the most suitable tyres for their cars.
In the past decade, increasing tire's diameter and width is a common trend shared by all car makers. Do you still remember the Lamborghini Countach employed 15-inch tyres ? Today's most exotic Ferrari, Porsche and Viper have 18 to 19-inch rubbers ! Larger diameter accompany with larger width increase the contact patch area (that is, the area of the tyre contacts with the ground), thus result in more grip. However, this also result in poorer wet road grip because the pressure acting upon the contact patch (that is, the car's weight divided by contact patch area) is reduced thus the tire becomes easier to "float" on the water. Therefore the texture also need to be improved for better water clearance.

Low profile tyres are also fashionable in these days. Since the thickness becomes thinner, it is more resistant to side wall deflection under substantial cornering force. However, this is not much related to grip.

It must be mentioned that wide tyres are not always good. Especially are front tyres, the wider they are, the more resistance generates when they are steered. This create a heavy and insensitive steering feel, also more tyre roar and wear. If you want to modify your car by using wider tyres, always consider the drawback first. In my opinion, most well-sorted European cars have already equipped with the most suitable tyres.

Mark Wan

To vnbluesea: Michelin is a good brand, also consider these brand too, Yokohama, Toyo, Bridgestone. They do have 100.OOO miles too if you want to buy, it just my suggestion. this link is useful too http://auto.howstuffworks.com/tire.htm/printable

[vnbluesea]

Thank you for all of your help, I bought 4 tires today and all rims need to wait for about 10 days for shipping.

[R-34]

ten days? they have to order it from oversea or something?