Wider Wheels

Ed,

Do you get snow where you live? If so, fat tires will kill your winter driving experience..................

Doc

Yeah Doc, we do get allot of snow. Infact, last night was the first snowfall of a whopping 1" I kinda figured someone would say that. That would be a bad thing, cuz up here in upstate NY, you never know when your gonna get a 3 foot snow storm. I just liked the looks of the wider wheels. I just don't like the looks of skinny/tall tires on 16" rims...But whatever is sensible works for me. Thanks

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Not sure what it weighed, but I had 33 x 12.50 x 16.5 tires on a '90 K3500 and I never had trouble. Combo of the IFS and heavy chassis made a big difference, though.

Merry Christmas :-) Snowman

Had some 285-75-16 mounted on some centerline aftermarket wheels on my 92 K1500. They stuck out about 2 inches and looked great. Traction was not a problem in the snow. I was running Kelly MSR tires and they had a deep tread, Although they were alfully heavy.

You could always take your stock wheels and mount a half way decent tire on them for the winter months and put the wider tires on on the spring.

Ed,

You don't have to go "skinny", just don't go wider than stock. I have a set of BFG AT/KO's on my C1500, LT235/75/15, and they're aggressive as hell in the snow. They fill the wheel well nicely and don't look skinny at all. When I bought her a few years back she had Firehawk SS20's, 255/60/15 which were nice and fat. Looked bad as hell from behind, couldn't get out of my driveway in the snow..........

Doc

That's what I was just thinking...

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