Nowadays, car wheel sizes are getting bigger and bigger. 10 years ago, wheels were mostly 15-16 inches, but nowadays 18-19 inch wheels are the main camp, and models with 20 inch wheels or more also abound.
What is more important than the visual and practical aspects of different wheel sizes?
Nowadays, car wheel sizes are getting bigger and bigger. 10 years ago, wheels were mostly 15-16 inches, but nowadays 18-19 inch wheels are the main camp, and models with 20 inch wheels or more also abound.
1. Visual impact
With the following comparison chart, I believe the most eye-catching part is the size of the wheels. The wheels are like the shoes of a car, a pair of big feet visually show "stability" and "atmosphere" and even "sport" and "performance" can be highlighted through the wheels. A large pair of feet visually indicates "stability" and "atmosphere" and even "performance" through the wheels. After all, we are all visual people, and with 15" - 22" wheels, every difference is a bigger visual impact. Take the current mainstream 18/19 inch wheels for example, 19 inch wheels are visually more dominant and in the same class, large wheels are synonymous with "top of the range" and "performance".
Different wheel sizes for the same model with different tyres
It is easy to see that when choosing a model configuration, different wheel sizes for different models will bring different tyre sizes, this is because the overall height of the tyres should be consistent.
2. Large wheels + thin tyres improve handling and reduce comfort
Take the same level of large wheel models as an example, large wheels with thin tyres solution, due to the thin tyre wall, tyre compression formation becomes smaller, its driving feeling is hard, support than thick tyres is a little better, handling driving feeling is more excellent, but then the problem is that the daily driving comfort becomes worse, the same road, the degree of bumps than the thick tyre wall.
3、Large wheels bring more expensive cost of use
In terms of replacement costs, I believe we all know that the larger the size of the tyre, the more expensive it is, and the higher it is, the more outrageous the price increase is. The author often says that "good looks are not good for food", which is appropriate here, as most tyres last for 3 years and 80,000 kilometres, and even if you don't drive them, you will have to replace them in 3-4 years (tyre rubber life), not counting the replacement of tyres damaged for personal reasons. This is also a lot of money.
4. Acceleration, braking and fuel consumption can be affected to a certain extent
If you simply increase the size of the wheels and tyres, you will also reduce the acceleration performance of the car (not fast), weaken the braking performance (can not brake) and high fuel consumption, in addition, the odometer data and the actual car data will also be very different. This is why it is important to consider the negative parameters of the wheels when modifying them.
The visual effect of the wheels is multiplied with each gear difference, and it is very obvious that although the large wheels look good, they also bring many problems.
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