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Originally Posted by jchammond
remmber-8"wide rim is 9"wide & 9" rim is 10" wide-(lip to lip) look at my tires;front's have 8.6"tread & rear's have 9.8" tread....still room for a bit wider.
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Then again tires are so different in width specs and aspect ratios from one manufacturer to another that it's always a guessing game. I have a friend with a BMW that had 295/30R19 Falkens in the rear and was rubbing. He later changed them with Pirelli 285/30R19s in hope of solving the rubbing issue (because they should be both slightly narrower and slightly smaller in overall diameter) only to find out they're actually a little bigger and rub even worse...so imagine how surprised we were when they were supposed to be actually smaller.
I have seen examples of this many, many times. Two tires from two different manufacturers with the same exact sizes on them, and they are sometimes not only slightly different, but VISIBLY different.