#17516, "RE: Wheel performance question" In response to In response to 8
>Discount tire claims to be able to mount a 235 on a 7" wheel. >I'd love to see this done. I tried to make a bet with the guy, >if it dodn't work they had to give me a set of tires for free, >but he wasn't havin it.
it's possible to mount that tire on a 7" wide wheel. it's just innappropriate. the tire would roll at the center of the tread and not make full contact. or if you corrected this by inflating the tire to compensate you would have wayyy to much air pressure and the tire would either blow out completely or the beads of the tire would blow off the wheel flange and it would dismount itself. i've seen both done before. the latter is particularly nasty.
