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18"~19" wheels.

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iGas

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Does big wheels look bad?

I have a white Camry and I wanted wheels like the one below at 19" or 18"

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Depends on the car. Those look pretty good and fill out the wheel wells pretty much perfect, and I honestly wouldn't notice that they weren't OEM wheels (which is a GOOD thing). Lower it an inch and call it a day.
 
Op, not to be mean, but I think 18"/19" wheels are a bad idea, for the following reasons :

(1)- Performance almost never improves, though there are exceptions. A good set of 16"/17" on that car will do just as well on a track. EDIT - Please don't take a Camry to a track. Or drive on the road like it's a track 😉

(2)- $$$ on tire cost. 18" and larger tires can get pricey in a hurry, and a lot of them are soft-compound tires that wear quickly.

(3)- $$$ on damage risk. Less sidewall = higher probability of road rashing/curb whacking them, even if you're a careful driver sometimes you can't notice a chunk of metal debris in the road or have no way of avoiding it (eg; 75mph on a freeway boxed in with other vehicles, and it just appears in your path 40' ahead).

(4)- $$$ in theft risk. Obvious.

(5)- Ride comfort suffers. The sidewall in a family sedan like a Camry is part of the overall suspension.

Big wheels can look good/bad/indifferent. I happen to like the ones pictured above, but I still can't honestly recommend it.
 
Arkaign said:
Op, not to be mean, but I think 18"/19" wheels are a bad idea, for the following reasons :

(1)- Performance almost never improves, though there are exceptions. A good set of 16"/17" on that car will do just as well on a track. EDIT - Please don't take a Camry to a track. Or drive on the road like it's a track 😉

(2)- $$$ on tire cost. 18" and larger tires can get pricey in a hurry, and a lot of them are soft-compound tires that wear quickly.

(3)- $$$ on damage risk. Less sidewall = higher probability of road rashing/curb whacking them, even if you're a careful driver sometimes you can't notice a chunk of metal debris in the road or have no way of avoiding it (eg; 75mph on a freeway boxed in with other vehicles, and it just appears in your path 40' ahead).

(4)- $$$ in theft risk. Obvious.

(5)- Ride comfort suffers. The sidewall in a family sedan like a Camry is part of the overall suspension.

Big wheels can look good/bad/indifferent. I happen to like the ones pictured above, but I still can't honestly recommend it.
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99% of people that get larger wheels only get them for looks so none of that matters.
 
Sadly that same 99% usually have terrible taste and they sacrificed all that for nothing. lol.

Honestly, 18 would be the most on that car. You're still running into the high priced tires and such, but at least it's not a 20" wheel or larger.
 
speedy2 said:
Sadly that same 99% usually have terrible taste and they sacrificed all that for nothing. lol.

Honestly, 18 would be the most on that car. You're still running into the high priced tires and such, but at least it's not a 20" wheel or larger.
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Just make sure you get a wheel size that has a lot of tire options available.
 
If you think it looks good, do it. I do not promise to not mock you, as different people like different things.

Although please, PLEASE, get the right offset and width for your car. My eyes bleed on a daily basis because everybody out here in California must buy rims out of catalogs. You know, the ones that show like 30 kinds of wheels, and they state the diameter but not the offset or width? I went to a wheel store once to get lighter wheels, but they just had things listed by diameter and I saw what looked to be OEM reproduction wheels for my car, but the lighter factory option wheels. But I couldn't tell anything about them and didn't have a scale handy. But hey, they were 17", so we knew that much!
 
exdeath said:
Depends on the car. Those look pretty good and fill out the wheel wells pretty much perfect, and I honestly wouldn't notice that they weren't OEM wheels (which is a GOOD thing). Lower it an inch and call it a day.
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That's because they ARE OEM wheels.
 
Arkaign said:
Op, not to be mean, but I think 18"/19" wheels are a bad idea, for the following reasons :

(1)- Performance almost never improves, though there are exceptions. A good set of 16"/17" on that car will do just as well on a track. EDIT - Please don't take a Camry to a track. Or drive on the road like it's a track 😉

(2)- $$$ on tire cost. 18" and larger tires can get pricey in a hurry, and a lot of them are soft-compound tires that wear quickly.

(3)- $$$ on damage risk. Less sidewall = higher probability of road rashing/curb whacking them, even if you're a careful driver sometimes you can't notice a chunk of metal debris in the road or have no way of avoiding it (eg; 75mph on a freeway boxed in with other vehicles, and it just appears in your path 40' ahead).

(4)- $$$ in theft risk. Obvious.

(5)- Ride comfort suffers. The sidewall in a family sedan like a Camry is part of the overall suspension.

Big wheels can look good/bad/indifferent. I happen to like the ones pictured above, but I still can't honestly recommend it.
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True this. My wife's Lexus has 18" wheels and we get about 20,000 miles out of a set of tires...if we're lucky.
 
MJinZ said:
Those are some shitty ass tire makers you're using.
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They are Dunlop SP Sport Maxx A (Maximum performance summer tires). They list at almost $1000 for a set of 4 tires from tirerack.com.

We are on our third set with almost 65k miles on the car and the front tires are looking pretty worn again.
 
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JulesMaximus said:
They are Dunlop SP Sport Maxx A (Maximum performance summer tires). They list at almost $1000 for a set of 4 tires from tirerack.com.

We are on our third set with almost 65k miles on the car and the front tires are looking pretty worn again.
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Epic Lulz.

When Michelin (#1 tires in the world) warranties their Ultra High Performance A/Ses for 45,000 miles and the rest for like 60+
 
ViviTheMage said:
rims on a camry seem REALLY silly, but I guess it's the same for any car? Just changes looks.
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Not true. Increasing the rim size will also increase the tire price, decrease fuel economy, and decrease acceleration :biggrin:

If you meant that the only advantage is looks, then that's pretty much true. You might get better cornering from larger rims with wider tires, but that performance gain is mostly from the greater width of the rims and not from the greater diameter.

The only performance advantage from having larger diameter rims is being able to use larger brakes, which obviously isn't the case with the OP's Camry.
 
MJinZ said:
Epic Lulz.

When Michelin (#1 tires in the world) warranties their Ultra High Performance A/Ses for 45,000 miles and the rest for like 60+
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Meh, I don't give a shit really, Lexus is paying for the tires so they can put whatever the fuck they want on it. You asked me the question, I answered it. I don't see what's so epicly funny about it.

Front: 225/40-18
Rear: 255/40-18
 
JulesMaximus said:
Meh, I don't give a shit really, Lexus is paying for the tires so they can put whatever the fuck they want on it. You asked me the question, I answered it. I don't see what's so epicly funny about it.

Front: 225/40-18
Rear: 255/40-18
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what do you mean they are paying for it?
 
sdifox said:
what do you mean they are paying for it?
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When we bought the car they offered us a tire warranty package where they replace the tires for free as long as we own the car. The only stipulation is that we have all the required maintenance done at the dealership.
 
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