I did a lot of research to determine if 225s would fit on my car. Lots of searching only ended in frustration from finding opinions ranging from "they'll fit with no rubbing" to "they will rub for sure". I recently had a set of 205/55-16 RE-01Rs mounted and put them on to find the following(see picture). So will 225s fit? That's a definite maybe. Each tire is different and RE-01R is on the wider end of the spectrum, but I can tell from the picture that 225's would NOT fit on my car without rubbing the strut. So at a minimum I would have needed spacers. My car is not lowered so it's hard for me to say whether I would have rubbed on the outer fender without rolling but judging from where the tire sits now and having a 225 with a spacer would most likely require at least a little rolling. I hope this helps clarify for anyone searching for this subject, I would have loved to see pics like this when I was searching.
holy thats close. Yeah the RE01's are on the wider spectrum. along with falken rt65's. Tires like Fuzions I think are a little more normal for there sizings.
Yes 225's will fit a GC with stock wheels. You just need to adjust your camber. If you think RE-01R's are wide you should see my 225 Kuhmo V710's. They are comparable to a 245 in just about any street tire. I run -0.9 degrees rear camber and they have never rubbed. The fronts ever so slightly rub the frame under full lock turning, but not enough to worry about.
I had no issues at all running 225/50R16's on my stock 01 RS. None. Tires were BF Goodrich G-Force Sports.
Sean (sp?) I have a hard time understanding how adjusting the camber is going to increase the clearance between the strut and tire. Running plates would have no effect on the strut to tire clearance and running camber bolts to gain negative camber should actually move the strut closer to the tire. feel free to clairify and correct me where I'm wrong.. As I said, every tire is different. Could you measure your tire at the widest point, I'm curious how much wider they are?
Which is why I put in the brand. 9blackmax6 has the tires now. I'll see if he can measure them. I have another set of 225/somethingR17's I'll measure, too. Those cleared the struts but rubbed the fender liner under hard cornering and with people in the car. I think they rubbed because the total outer diameter was considerably larger than stock.
When you adjust camber, your strut stays at the same angle, but you change the angle of the knuckle, and wheel/tire. This means with more of a positive camber, your tire will be further away from the strut. Does this help? Side note, The Graffie was running 245's on his GC, with only very minor rubbing on his rear struts, I think wheel spacers fixed this problem.
I understand that, generally I wouldn't want to sacrifice too much negative camber though. All this is adding extra steps though, adjusting camber, spacers, rolling, ect. I never said 225's couldn't fit, rather they may not fit on a totally stock car.
