Rear wheels wider than front. Is it good?

[Sickscientist]

I've seen cars which have wider rear wheels... What advantage does it have?? Was thinking how do they do rotation when sizes are different....

[Weihui]

Those cars you have seen mostly are rear wheel drive I guess. For FWD it won't do any good. Only make your car heavier and understeer more.

[Daryl_lum]

Don't think there's any use in having differing sizes. just some weird myth again...

[Coupe07]

its not a myth....

 

its a "privilege" for rear wheel drive cars.....

[Otsego]

yea, The Nissan Fairlady and Merc SLK both the rear wheels are wider then front but i wonder how they do wheel rotation

[Furrynadz]

balancing is a must

rotation is not

[Bulls_is_back]

they don't ,,, but actually

 

If the tyre is non directional, just swap left to right and vice versa

 

If the tyre is directional, they can still take off tyres and swap L to the R side.

 

For the Asymetrical thread pattern tyres, then lan lan lor.

[Otsego]

ok what about FF cars? do their front tyre wider then rears?

[Bulls_is_back]

They usually don't.

The whole idea of FF is to get safe understeer.

 

You might want wider front than rear only if you know what you are doing.

What about putting spacers in front so that the front wheels is wider apart compared to the rear. Then put some front strut bars/fender bars/lower bars to stiffen everything up in front. That will be interesting :)

[Yc86]

Won't having a stiffer front than the rear induce more understeer?

[Yc86]

FF drag cars usually have wider tyres in the front, for more traction..

 

not sure if a car with a wider track on the front will have any handling problems though.

[Liping24]

wider rear wheels....cannot do rotation.

They are rich to just replace the tyres when time comes.

 

Tyre rotations are to maximise the tyres usefulness.

[Bulls_is_back]

Balance out the extra grip.... maybe

[Ahbengdriver]

Its for RWD cars where the power is sent to the rear wheels to take advantage of the torque and acceleration, otherwise wheel may spin. Wider wheels = more rubber contact so takes advantage of the power which is otherwsie wasted.

 

See Formula One cars?

 

Of cos if yr car has not enuf power and not RWD u dont need staggered tyres

Edited June 4, 2007 by Ahbengdriver

[oomph]

no rotation or switch L-R if thread design permits.

 

a number of 350Zs and Beemers have this configuration on the streets of the lion city.

 

[Cupid]

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yea, The Nissan Fairlady and Merc SLK both the rear wheels are wider then front but i wonder how they do wheel rotation

 

Mitsubishi i also like that leh

[Bulls_is_back]

I believe the i has a RMR layout.

The wider rears is there to compensate the rear weight bias.

[Sickscientist]

Thanks all for the clarification... Now I have a better understanding on cars with wider rear track... Cheers...!