constantly place an enormous amount of effort, research, money, etc into the credibility that the industry, as well as customers bestow on us. It would deflate/ defeat that reputation by stepping outside the Tire Manufacturers recommendations for given rim width specification range. Regardless of whatever the current/latest "style" happens to be. Our position will continue to be to adhere to that which the USA Tire Manufacturers Tire Specifications/recommendations are.
For any given tire that I sell, if you look at (any of), the tire you'll find the Rim Width Range recommendations. All of these specs are supplied by the individual Tire Manu- facturers. Bottom line-I don't know why anyone would second guess the highly trained "Rubber" Engineers, employed by the Tire Manufacturers.
Reminds me of the honda boys when they started cutting springs......you can't tell me that it's actually better (performance). In fact it's most likely more dangerous.....but it's all about the looks right?
On the other hand there are probably more people out there running bald tires that are in a worse position....but there's something to be said about intentionally degrading your performance and safety potential.
2002 Jetta 1.8T 5spd, GIAC 2004 A4 Avant 1.8T 6spd
Ya right, stretched, besides the obvious (a narrower tire mounted on a wheel that is, by the tire manufacturers specs, too wide for the tire size being used), creates understeer, i.e. push, i.e. the phat little car just won't turn. Front drivers are already prone to that negative handling characteristic anyway. When a person puts a wider tire on the rear of a front driver he is dialing in even more understeer. So the idea of buying a VW for "excellent German handling" is not the real goal with stretched/wider rear tires. So it seems that it would be kind of "crazy" to buy a great handling car, buy suspension to enhance handling and then cancel out the improved handling.
