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Subject Need help buying a small spare tire. (Tire/Wheel noobie)
     
Posted by Heavyarms2050 on August 19, 2012 at 6:31 PM
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Message Seeing its somewhat hard finding donut spare tires Z's, I figure i buy a small wheel and put a relatively thin tire so it can fit in my tire compartment in the trunk. So I need help choosing the right size. Right now I have two options:

Option 1: Buy a similar size to the donut spare tire.
So from what I gather, the donut spare tire is 15'', and tire itself is 165/80-15. So after quick search on discount tire, i found these two:

[ http://www.discounttire.com/dtcs/findWheelDetail.do?bp=5-108&r=TSWINT ]|pc|77056&pc=72512&wd=15&rw=6

[ http://www.discounttire.com/dtcs/findTireDetail.do?bp=5-108&r=TSWINT ]|pc|77056&pc=33387&ar=80&wd=15&rd=15&rw=6&cs=165

Unless I'm missing something, this should almost exactly like my old donut spare tire. The only problem so far is that it's kinda pricy-ish.

Option 2: Buy a smaller size wheel, negating the need for thin tires.
If I get this 13" rim:

[ http://www.discounttire.com/dtcs/findWheelDetail.do?bp=5-114.3 ]*5-4.5*5-4.5%2F5&tc=UNIQ21&c=17&rcz=77056&pc=61231&wd=13&rw=&rc=TSWINT

It should work, but the only problem is that I don't know what tire size to get for it.

"Just because it has 20 less hp doesn't mean I can't kick your ass!"

     
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