i have a 94 mazda mx-3. people have told me to do it but i dont know what purpose it would server. can anyone help me out here?
2007-12-17 16:09:25 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Car Makes ➔ Mazda
You would look stupid. Seriously, there is no reason to do that. You won't get any performance gains at all, and you will lose a small amount of visibility.
2007-12-17 16:14:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
It would look stupid, plus your speedometer will be off. If we are not talking about drag racing (or any kind of racing) and more about a daily driver, then you can achieve better handling by increasing the radius (or size) of the rim while getting a set of lower profile tires. If the bigger rim is also wider, you can fit wider tires also, giving you better traction. Beware of the offset since you are likely to go aftermarket. Mazda has a very high offset in general (+52mm). Most aftermarket rims are +45mm.
2007-12-18 01:01:59 · answer #2 · answered by Andy 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
they do that for traction when drag racing. Changing the front tire size with also throw off your speedometer on a front wheel drve car
2007-12-18 00:18:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure if people actually put larger wheels on the front tires but you would be able to pull it off if you put the larger wheels on the rear...
2007-12-18 00:56:48 · answer #4 · answered by RickVicious 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Your handling would suffer a great deal. I guess these "people" know more about automotive engineering than the engineers who designed and built the car.
You'd also go through tires real fast; you wouldn't be able to rotate them except side to side.
And, in my humble opinion, it would look stupid as hell.
2007-12-18 00:16:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
You would get terrible gas mileage because you would be going uphill all the time.
2007-12-18 22:08:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's something that people who have no clue what their talking about would suggest.
2007-12-18 00:23:48 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You would be driving uphill all the time.
And your headlights would wake up sleeping squirrels.
2007-12-18 00:46:32 · answer #8 · answered by don_sv_az 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
They are messing with you .... Just want to see if they could actually get you to do it !
you wouldnt actually do it would you ?
2007-12-20 16:49:07 · answer #9 · answered by miatadrift 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋