For the look. Usually seen on 10 plus year old Falcons and Commodores with a P plate stuck to the back window. They would be in the top ten list of cars that you would call 'Cop bait'
ian.mezz wrote:I have seen lotsss of cars lately with mag wheels on the front and steel stock wheels or skinny wheels on the back why????
Nothing like that in the country.. I hope...
Maybe they buy used wheels and tyres at wreckers cheap..??
about 8 years ago, a local car testing Mechanic lost His licence to pass cars... as some of the cars He had passed were pulled up a couple of days later with balding illegal tyres on their cars.
The cause was found later on ---
Turned out... the youngsters were hiring good wheels and tyres from the local wreckers for a day... lol
then putting the old ones back on.. lol
LEE
- Helping keep Air Cooled VWs on the road - location: SCONE in the Upper Hunter Valley - Northern NSW 320 kms NNW of SYDNEY---
hellbugged wrote:because they do burnouts on the good ones before they relize they can't afford to replace the scragged tyres 🙅
Now that is seriously funny ... and the most likely story.
The other one is that they don't have enough power under the bonnet to turn the grippy tires 😂 (not true for most)
there are many reasons as listed but one very main reason is the burnouts.... cheapies on the back, just pop her in 2nd and have no tires in under 1 minute 30.... hehehe.... its a young and stupid thing... last time i did it was 6 yrs ago... must be getting old :P
VW - helping put oil back into the ground for over 60 years
Its a look some go for now, or cause they cant get their hektic rims to fit.
If you have rims on the front and stovkers on the back you get pulled over all the time around here, but tis the look im going for with my next car, rims on front stockers on back, to give the impression i skid everywhere
Illegal I can understand if it's rear wheel drive, if it's front wheel drive I would think the opposite, but then I'm an old fart and just can't see the sense in it either way.
I dream of a day when a chicken can cross a road without being asked for it's motive!
donn wrote:Illegal I can understand if it's rear wheel drive, if it's front wheel drive I would think the opposite, but then I'm an old fart and just can't see the sense in it either way.
You're not allowed different sized wheels front to back. You can't legally have 14s on the front and 15s on the back.
Smiley 😎
If you said I was a Volkswagen man, you'd be right.
donn wrote:Illegal I can understand if it's rear wheel drive, if it's front wheel drive I would think the opposite, but then I'm an old fart and just can't see the sense in it either way.
Smiley wrote:You're not allowed different sized wheels front to back. You can't legally have 14s on the front and 15s on the back.
Smiley 😎
Show me the law which says so! Plenty of cars have staggered tyres and are engineered with compliance plates, even many factory cars use different sized tyres front to back.
Smiley wrote:You're not allowed different sized wheels front to back. You can't legally have 14s on the front and 15s on the back.
Smiley 😎
Show me the law which says so! Plenty of cars have staggered tyres and are engineered with compliance plates, even many factory cars use different sized tyres front to back.
if its factory then its legal, if no then you have to get it engineered to be legal. from memory you can't go anymore than 15 wider than standard on up one size but they both have to match! i used to get pulled over when i first got the baja on the road and the first thing they looked at was tyres, i have 10'5's on the rear(15) and 235(15) on the front. i have to carry a copy of my report with me at all times to show tham its all good. they don't bother anymore as all the local cops know me and the car and know its 100% legal but when the out of towners come in over the holidays i always get at least one pull me over and throw the tyres size law at me.
The latest craze here the Fxxkwits get up to-out to the industrial area with heaps of bread crates in their front wheel drive heaps-put a bread crate under each back wheel,pull on the hand brake and go crazy.They eventually wear thru the crate and end up with big flat spots on the rear tyres-Tyre sellers here just love it.
On the coast here you see heaps of vans and utes with the big chrome wheels/low profile tyres on the front and stock 14" wheels on the rear, not only is this for the burnouts but also it is harder to get "load rated" low profile tyres for the bigger diameter wheels. The front tyres of utes have a different load rating to the rear as that is where all the weight is.
mitchellgolds wrote:On the coast here you see heaps of vans and utes with the big chrome wheels/low profile tyres on the front and stock 14" wheels on the rear, not only is this for the burnouts but also it is harder to get "load rated" low profile tyres for the bigger diameter wheels. The front tyres of utes have a different load rating to the rear as that is where all the weight is.
so its not just in Newcastle, its all over the place.
would they feel a bit over steery?
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car forums. where a lot of peoples good intentions end up taking a good old car off the road forever never ever to see the road again. 🥲
It is to make it look like you do burnouts, even if you don't.
Burnout is the practice of keeping a vehicle stationary (or close to) and spinning both of its big wide wheels using heaps of torque and horsepower, if your car has the real grunt to do it, causing the tires to heat up and smoke resulting from friction. Weak cars use oil or skinny tyres or one wheel only
Skid is what a locked up brake or push bike wheel does. Not a good way to describe what a burnout really is.
