mixing tire ratings.

[Aren Jay]

What happens if you mix tire rated tires?

I can buy 18" 255 55 snow tires in H rating but can only get the comparable 18" 235 50's in a V rating. Now for snow tires running an H rating and for a Marauder that can't exceed 130 mph anyway H rating is enough. But the tire places will not sell me 2 H rated and 2 V rated tires. Why not?

[jgc61sr2002]

My tire store insists that all tires be of the same rating.

[MMMAN]

Tires only need to be the same on each axle to avoid pulling issues. You can have tires with one speed rating on the front and different ones on the back.

[burt ragio]

If you don't have any intentions of installing big brakes go with 16" snows all around as many other members have that use snow tires. The whole idea behind a snow tire is for the tire to dig down into the snow. A larger tires that you are looking at is still very fat and wide and stays on the surface and won't give you the traction you will need.

[CRUZTAKER]

If you don't have any intentions of installing big brakes go with 16" snows all around as many other members have that use snow tires. The whole idea behind a snow tire is for the tire to dig down into the snow. A larger tires that you are looking at is still very fat and wide and stays on the surface and won't give you the traction you will need.

I have tried to explain this to umpteen amounts of people here over the years. It is clinically impossible to convince those insistant on running 18" tires. Never have, never will. I quit making snow tire suggestions last winter. My having driven a MM the first winter of their production and experimenting with the some 600 members we had back then and my deep roots in the tire manufacturing industry here in Akron, Ohio give no credibility.

Buy 18" snow tires I say. Buy 17's and lincoln wheels. Buy one, buy two, buy tires made in japan and korea. Throw on M+S....drive with the BFG's and swear they work fine for alll I care.

:woohoo:

:lol:

[FastMerc]

There is no Damn reason to be doing any racing on snow tires behave yourself and it dont matter what you use on speed ratings.Just have the diamaters the right size.Take it from me see my gallery BFGs in snow SUCK!!!

[Aren Jay]

Every once in a while in the middle of June we get snow here in Calgary. Black ice and a few 1000 cars in the ditches sliding down the embankments and off the on/off ramps. I was looking at a set of 18" Nokian All weather tires. Not all season and not winter, although they are rated for winter use. They are more like performance winter tires or all season tires made to keep gripping when it gets cold. Also here in Calgary it can be dry roads 350 days of the year and then the next year you can get 25 days of dry roads. As they say "if you don't like the weather, wait a minute".

Now I wasn't so much asking about winter tires and some peoples adversion to 18" rims.

I was asking why you can't mix different rated tires, and if you can, why the tire shops can't mix them?

[CRUZTAKER]

Now I wasn't so much asking about winter tires and some peoples adversion to 18" rims.

Not in THIS tire thread you weren't.

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[ctrlraven]

They won't mix them because you are buying from them and they are installing them. It's an insurance liability issue. Best thing to do is try to order some and then take them some place to be put on.