Need to go with 17's due to the Xb being a Downtown "pothole" car. Would I still need to lower it or do they do a good job of filling in the space?

 

in all honesty ____ty , any car with rims looks better without rims if u dont drop it. sooooo if yer gonna shoe it drop it

 

hotbox hit the nail on the head with that one... ____.

ive got 17s with 205-40-17 tires. it would fill it up better with 205-45-17s but i got mine in a package so no choice. im just saving up to lower it. its about the same as stock essentially but it makes it look odd still

 

that tire size is gonna mess yer miles up. it'll say yer putin 10 miles on yer car when inb reality yer only putin say 8 something miles.

 

Actually, if the tire is larger than the factory size the odometer will read less than what you actually drove. A larger tire means it has a larger circumfrence which translates into more distance for each revolution.

Anyhow, this is a pic of mine with 17s and no drop.

With drop.

 

looking hot chadfo! im thinking about getting the s-techs too . what kind of tails you got on there in that pic?

 

Thanks sexy! Those are the TYC taillights.

 

heres a better question- how does a stock xb look? ANSWER- it needs a drop!

So you can imagine how bad it looks with 17"+ wheels!

i would LOVE to drop mine, but with the winters we get here- thats not going to happen!

 

i feel for ya Unfocused! in the past couple days we had over a foot of snow fall. if i do drop i figure ill just be an unofficial snow plow. ill look good while helping the city :D

 

its actually the other way around i think, if the diameter is larger than stock (total) than the circumferance is larger, meaning the time it takes to make one full rotation, what your milage is based on is actually more than its calibrated to thin......thats why my former (read dead) s-10 read 55 when i was going 70 after the pre-runner transformation, switching from a 205 tire (27 in to a 30 in

brent

 

Overall larger tire diameter than stock will log less miles and a slower speed without recalibration. For example:

Stock (185/60/15) Vs. 17's (205/45/17)
60 mph Vs. 58.7 mph
100 miles Vs. 97.8 miles

Speedometer difference would be 2.192 % too slow, and Diameter Difference is +2.15%.

 

Here was mine 17 x 7 205/45/17, Just sold wheels & ordered DF210,s new wheels soon to come. It was too much of a gap for me, it did ride nice though.

 

here is mine on 17's with tanabe springs




not a agood pic..sorry :?

 

what i meant was that 205/40/17's are too smalle meaning your speedo will say 70mph but you'll only be going like 65 or so meaning yer car will say u drove 10 miles but only covered like8 somethin miles in actuality lol

 

That's a nice private Garage for your Xb I see in the background....kinda matches too!

 

Close but no cigar. 205/40/17 is like .3% smaller than the oem size tires and 215/40/17 is .3% larger diameter so either is the correct size for the box and your speedo will be off by like 1 MPH either way. As far as lowering is concerned, It looks like it is lowered from the factory. I get asked daily if it has been lowered and I say "no it is factory height".

 

17's with a 2 inch drop would look clean IMO

 

I think you can get away with not dropping an xB

An xA is another story....

My xB is on 225/40/18, stock springs, looks fine....

If anything I would get TRD's just for better cornering.

-THE DON

 

I agree, to say it will look ____ty is jsut an opinion. and sometime like here in Cleveland, dropping it would be stupid of me to do. So when I get some 17's, its gonna stay stock.

If anyone is interested in seeing how different wheels would work check out this link. You can see different rims at different heights
http://ohioscions.com/vehicle-mod.html
Click your car and go from there

 

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