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new shoes /tyre size
« on: January 01, 2015, 01:32:23 pm »
bought some new wheels just need to get tyres but unsureweather to run 235/35/19 or 225/35/19 any help please !!

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Re: new shoes /tyre size
« Reply #1 on: January 01, 2015, 02:05:10 pm »
235/35/19 will maintain the correct rolling circumference for you car.
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Re: new shoes /tyre size
« Reply #2 on: January 01, 2015, 02:42:21 pm »
Depends on  Model, Mk5 6 or 7 GTi or R, MK5/6 GTI either 235/35 or 225/35, if R model then it will have to be 235/35 for the 92 Load index rating.

A word of caution, if you decide to go for 235/35/19 in Mich Pilot super sport they come up big compared to almost every other manufacturer, both width and circumference (only seems to affect the 235)  and will most likely Rub on a mk5, front and back.
 I had BBS CH 8x19 et 50 on stock height with Billy dampers  and they were horrendous, rubbed on inside of rear arch liner then with spacers fitted would catch outside lip at the bumper to arch join, fronts rubbed on lock and the worst was on full compression in straight ahead would catch wheel arch liner at the screw position, with only myself in the car,  yet the previous falkens the same size never caught anywhere even four up..the PSS was physically the same dimensions when put side by side to a 255/19 bridgestone 050A at ATS.
 Unfortunately I have none of the pics left, I had loads saved on my old phone, rookie iphone user and lost them before back up :rolleye:

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Re: new shoes /tyre size
« Reply #3 on: January 01, 2015, 07:28:32 pm »
http://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,72922.0.html - The forum's best guide to wheels and tyres.

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Re: new shoes /tyre size
« Reply #4 on: January 04, 2015, 12:31:29 am »
Depends on  Model, Mk5 6 or 7 GTi or R, MK5/6 GTI either 235/35 or 225/35, if R model then it will have to be 235/35 for the 92 Load index rating.

A word of caution, if you decide to go for 235/35/19 in Mich Pilot super sport they come up big compared to almost every other manufacturer, both width and circumference (only seems to affect the 235)  and will most likely Rub on a mk5, front and back.
 I had BBS CH 8x19 et 50 on stock height with Billy dampers  and they were horrendous, rubbed on inside of rear arch liner then with spacers fitted would catch outside lip at the bumper to arch join, fronts rubbed on lock and the worst was on full compression in straight ahead would catch wheel arch liner at the screw position, with only myself in the car,  yet the previous falkens the same size never caught anywhere even four up..the PSS was physically the same dimensions when put side by side to a 255/19 bridgestone 050A at ATS.
 Unfortunately I have none of the pics left, I had loads saved on my old phone, rookie iphone user and lost them before back up :rolleye:

i have same wheels was thinking to go with continetal tyres hopefully should be ok as im  on standard springs

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Re: new shoes /tyre size
« Reply #5 on: January 04, 2015, 07:40:35 pm »
Should be ok with anything 235 except PSS on those CH's
 eyeballing various makes while at the tyre depot proving a point about the PSS with the Group Tyre Rep showed that a Conti SC5p,Pzero, Dunlop SMGT,Bridge 050a were all visually smaller by quite a margin.