6.5j???

[iSamKing]

Forget the safety argument and all the rest. Will the insurance company be happy that you have put on narrower wheels and tires than standard?

Insurance don't matter they don't get a say

 

[matt_s]

Insurance don't matter they don't get a say

And there was me thinking you wanted to keep it all legal and above board.

 

[iSamKing]

It still will be legal don't worry about that. .

 

[jim_bling]

And when was the vr6 brought out??? exactly. Things change and manufactures realise where they went wrong, then progressto better things, hence why they put bigger wheels on as standard now.

Before you go and try have a go at me, i work for nissan so i know exactly what im on about. I have been messing about with cars since i was 8 (rally auto cross and road going cars as well as drift cars and track cars)

 

[Seatmann]

All I'm saying is that 6.5j is not dangerous on a sporty hatch and that's it, I think to say that it's bordering on dangerous is daft. Manufacturers only made the wheels bigger and wider for styling on these hot hatches, I mean the legal limit is only 70 at best. I fully understand that on a track the extra .5 per wheel will make a difference but not on a road car. There wasn't anything wrong with 6.5j on the older cars with regards to safety but people don't want that anymore, as I've said the manufacturers seen what people were doing to their cars with regards to styling like biggger, wider wheels, body kits, smarter bumpers etc and so they redisigned their cars to cash in on this market.

The original question was asking about fitting a set of wheels to a leon, nobody said it was even a cupra, it could be a 1.4 for all anyone knows and I think it's wrong to say stuff like bordering on dangerous to the guy. Even nissan didn't fit great big wide wheels to their cars either and if you know as much as you say you do then you should know that I'm not talking crap, how old are you exactly and how long have you been farting about with cars?

I'm not having a go at anybody either, I'm simply arguing a point and I've been in my mates VR6 at serious speed around corners with 6.5j wheels on, I was totally blown away by the handling of that thing, it's absolutly fantastic and so's his corrado. His latest car, the golf gt tdi has 6.5j on as standard too and it's not ancient, a lot of todays cars still have 6.5j wheels but they're like 16, 17 and 18 inch, wider wheels are a style thing for these cars, the companies are trying to sell to a market and nothing more.

 

[Applemobile]

Fitting 6.5j wheels to a Leon is borderline dangerous.

 

[Seatmann]

Fitting 6.5j with uniroyal rainsports against 7j with budgets the 6.5j wins hands down, I think suspension and tyres is far more important than the half inch of wheel size, the other thing is that not all leons come with 7j wheels, some do and some don't, sometimes it's an option when buying the car new. I would expect all cupras to have 7j but there's also a lot of them that aren't cupras.

Oh yeh and I still disagree lol We'll just have to agree to disagree otherwise this could go on forever.

 

[Applemobile]

I'm not agreeing to naff all. You're wrong.

 

[Seatmann]

How am I wrong? Are you trying to tell me that no leons come with 6.5j? I've been driving like an idiot for over 20 years now in various cars with various setups and in my experience I'm very much right. Sure 6.5j isn't as good as 7j but to say it's bordering on dangerous is just nonsense.