Alloy question

[f0xy]

Okay, I'm prepared to be laughed out of the door here with my no doubt bone question, but here goes:

Also, go easy, I just go my first car and am totally new to anything hands on with cars.

Anyway, my Clio's wheels are 165/70 R13 79 T , and I just measured my wheel and it's 15 inches in diameter and including tires it's about 20.5/21 inches across. So, and remember to go easy, can I have alloys bigger than 15 inches but with a smaller tire? And if so, up to what size roughly?

 

[f0xy]

your alloys are 13" going off your tyre size....then the tyre is 1" tall so to speak, making it 15" all the way across? that what you mean?

depends on the model what size wheel you can put on....what model is it? RN/RT?

 

[Jordi17]

What model year etc is it?

 

[f0xy]

Oh sorry.

1999 1.2 Grande

Also Foxy the wheels are 15 inch across by my tape measure

 

[Bigsy]

165/70 R13 79 T

According to this, the alloy is 13"

 

[f0xy]

165/70 R13 79 T

According to this, the alloy is 13"

Yep, so can I put 15 inch alloys on then? Or larger?

 

[Budgie]

15" wheels will go on that fine. Anything up to a 17" probably will, but you'll look like a tool, and it'll drive like a wheelbarrow. 15/16" ftw.

 

[f0xy]

15" wheels will go on that fine. Anything up to a 17" probably will, but you'll look like a tool, and it'll drive like a wheelbarrow. 15/16" ftw.

Thanks to you and all who replied, I'll go with 15 then, saves £100 eh :approve:

 

[JCC]

15s or 16s matey, 17s make it look like a roller skate.

 

[f0xy]

Only me again with what I imagine is another bone question

I've looked around and for my low budget have decided on these

https://www.wheel-base.co.uk/proddetail.asp?prod=ACE-205

Although it says suitable for Renault, the wheel has 5 holes where as the one on now has 4. So how does that work out then?

 

[Jordi17]

u can get them in 4 stud aswell by the looks of it, pic just shows a 5 stud wheel.