Safe Limits To Increase Car Elections, What's The Maximum Size?

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YOGYAKARTA Changing car rims with a larger size than the standard can make the car look cooler and more cool. This modification is quite often done, considering that the process is not complicated and can be done at a later date. However, before doing so, vehicle owners need to know the safe limit of enlargeing car rims so that liter replacements do not cause new problems.

The inappropriate use of rims can reduce comfort when driving and car handling becomes more difficult. In addition, too large a rim size can also interfere with the performance of car legs.

Summarized from various sources, Thursday, February 1, 2024, the safe limit to enlarge car rims is a maximum of 2 inches larger than the standard size.

For example, if previously your car wheels used rings measuring 16, then the safe limit to enlarge the rim is to be replaced to ring 18.

Replacement of this rim must also be followed by changing the size of the tire to a larger diameter.

The way to choose tires when changing the size of the rim diameter is to pay attention to the aspect of the tire ratio.

The aspect ratio is the ratio between height and width of the tire. This ratio shows the thickness or thinness of a tire.

The aspect value of the ratio is calculated from the percentage section wide (measured from the inside of the tire to the tire side) compared to the section weight (measured from the tire tread to the bottom of the tire holding the rim/beam tire).

For example, car tires with a size of 225/35 R19. The 225 figure is a number that shows a wide section. While the number 35 shows the aspect of the ratio. The smaller the number, the thinner the tire.

If the rim diameter of the car is too big, the tires used must be very thin tires. This is so as not to disturb the comfort while driving.

This rule must be obeyed so that driving comfort can be maintained. Changing less large rims can maintain the aspect of the ratio that complies with comfort standards.

In addition, vehicle owners also do not need to re-calibrate the speedometer when changing the 2-inch rim size larger than the standard size.

Here are some measures that can be used as benchmarks when changing the diameter of the car tires:

This size is in accordance with the European standard tolerance (ETRTO TSD) so there is no need to calibrate the speedometer.

That's information about the safe limit of enlargeing car rims. Hopefully this article can add insight to the loyal readers of VOI.ID.