Your logic doesn’t make since to me. If a 295/45 felt too heavy for you, why do you think a taller, wider tire will fix that. And what do you mean by the car and steering didn’t like it? Also, what performance gain do you expect from a taller tire. It will actually make you slower because the car has to roll a taller wheel that is heavier.
A 305/50r20 is also not in fact “a touch wider,” it is over 3/4 of an IN. Wider and taller than what you have now, which is a lot when you are talking tires. Also, who are these “countless people claiming their 305/40r22 fit perfectly?” A large majority of the people running that tire size are rubbing, .4 IN will only make it worse. Maybe you could pull back the fender liner, but I dont think thats going to fix it either.
Finally, why do you keep putting +30 after every tire size you mention? +30 refers to the offset of the wheel, and has nothing to do with the tire itself.
Y’all are wearing me out. Lol. I appreciate the input though haha.
Multiple things to respond to here. Maybe a new thread is needed so we can get more chime in from the 305/40r22 crowd. I’ve seen multiple people on the Facebook forums claiming they’re running this without issue, which has been baffling to me, and very few saying anything about rub.
I’m simply referring to +30 as the offset of the wheel. Obviously tires do not come with an offset lol. But the offset of the wheel is a key piece of information many people leave out when discussing tire sizes that fit. It’s important to know the offset of a wheel when discussing maximum tire diameters that fit with or without rubbing, at half to full turn, minimal or not. The lower offset will push it into the wheel well/fender liner at half and full turn, and a higher offset puts it closer to the strut. Tread width and tire diameter are also points of contention.
Yes I said I’d like a tire a touch wider than 285, but 295s don’t exist unless I go for a smaller overall diameter than OEM, which I’ve stated I’m trying to do the opposite. I don’t want wider than 305 either. I explicitly stated 295 was my preferred size. If I can find the General Grabber UHP in that size I will get i but I think they have been discontinued.
A larger diameter while maintaining the same weight or even decreasing weight when possible is a performance gain in that a larger diameter tire spinning at the same rate travels more distance, I also will have more ground clearance between the ground and the axles, and less slippage under hard acceleration, especially through turns or on wet roads. More traction, maybe a touch better gas mileage. I’m looking at tires that weigh the same or less than my current setup.
Idk how other people don’t have the same problem as me, but with my OEM wheels and tires my steering was annoyingly heavy. When I added 295/45r20s on 20x10 wheels at a +25 offset (even though slightly dropping overall weight) it made it even worse. I took them off and put OEMs back on within the week because of how much I couldn’t stand it. I chalked it up to the kingpin axis because nothing else made sense. I had to firesale that entire combo because I could not return them since they were used. Apparently other people have run that setup without issue so idk why it didn’t work for me.
3 years later I fork out money for a new setup, this time 20x9.5 +33 with 285/50r20, while only dropping a few lbs from oem, so still wider than oem and a lower offset, but this time my steering has lightened up, and feels significantly better, so much so that I don’t hate the car anymore. (Ford should make it possible to change steering weight/feel on our dash since we have EPS but they don’t..) So I don’t know how else to explain the difference there except that one tire decreased in diameter and didn’t work and the other tire increased and felt great. All setups were similar weight. Regardless of any of that, I like the look and function of a higher diameter tire much better anyways.
