lol except it took them a little longer to find thier car.... lol

 

Well we sure wont be worrying bout loosinga SY!!

 

not for me they didnt i had 215 35 18 on my car and i was happy with them & no drop now i have 205 40 17 and there is a humungous gap.

 

You shouldn't have any amount of lift unless your wheel/tire combo is bigger than stock dimensions. Think of the wheel/tire as a donut, where the tire is the dough and the hole is the rim... if you increase the size of the hole (bigger rim) by eating away at it from the center, the donut stays the same. It just now has a bigger center... and the point where the hub mounts to the rim would still be the absolute center. Just because the hole is bigger, it doesn't mean either that the hub is mounted higher or that the overall diameter of the wheel/tire is larger. So, no... it should not lift. Now, if you change the overall diameter by getting a tire too big, then yeah, it will change things.

 

Taking humpty's example...

215/35-18 - overall diameter = 23.92"
205/40-17 - overall diameter = 23.45"

So, while really not a 'humungous" difference, it's still half an inch more gap from the tire to the lip now.

Oh, just to be complete, for the person that put 225/40 on 18s, your overall diameter is 25.08" where the stock xB diameter is 23.74"... big difference, that's why it was lifted. Because you made it do that. Your speedo reads almost 4mph slower now because of it... on the plus side, if you ever sell the car, it will have less miles on it than was driven...