Goodyear Eagle F1 All Season XL didn't fit onto stock MS6 wheels

[Skyclad]

Just a quick heads up. I decided to give the new Goodyear Eagle F1 All Season XL tires a try on my MS6 with the stock wheels. I got the 225/45ZR-18 size. Both Goodyear and Tire Rack listed the minimum wheel size as 7". It was a close thing, but the wheel saver lip on the tires hung up on the bead during the installation, and the tire just wouldn't quite slide over the bead. I certainly do not think that it was a problem with the shop doing the installation (CBRD Speedfactory in York, PA).

I am not going to say that there is not way to make this tire work on stock wheels, but just a warning about the difficulty I had with mine.

Guess that I will be getting those Bridgestone Potenza RE960AS Pole Position tires after all.

[posttosh]

Just a quick heads up. I decided to give the new Goodyear Eagle F1 All Season XL tires a try on my MS6 with the stock wheels. I got the 225/45ZR-18 size. Both Goodyear and Tire Rack listed the minimum wheel size as 7". It was a close thing, but the wheel saver lip on the tires hung up on the bead during the installation, and the tire just wouldn't quite slide over the bead. I certainly do not think that it was a problem with the shop doing the installation (CBRD Speedfactory in York, PA).[/b]

You lucked out. If the shop had managed to squeeze the tires onto the rims, your performance would have suffered. It is never a good idea to use the narrowest rim that is nominally approved for a tire. Better to get wider rims than to have sidewalls that are canted in several degrees from vertical. You are considering going with some Bridgestone tires; are you going to try to squeeze 225/45R18 Bridgestone tires onto the same rims?

[Skyclad]

That actually was my original plan. However, I have been thinking about the whole size thing. I can not afford to get different wheels right now, so I think that I may have to just stick with the stock tire size. Of course, this means that I don't get to run the RE960's.


UPDATE: Just found out I am getting a bonus at work. I just got done ordering a set of Flik Hornets in 18x7.5 ET48. I will post up any fitment issues that I have and a review on the Flik wheels. They are inexpensive, and I have not found much negative reivews, so...

[dstone20]

Just a quick heads up. I decided to give the new Goodyear Eagle F1 All Season XL tires a try on my MS6 with the stock wheels. I got the 225/45ZR-18 size. Both Goodyear and Tire Rack listed the minimum wheel size as 7". It was a close thing, but the wheel saver lip on the tires hung up on the bead during the installation, and the tire just wouldn't quite slide over the bead. I certainly do not think that it was a problem with the shop doing the installation (CBRD Speedfactory in York, PA).

I am not going to say that there is not way to make this tire work on stock wheels, but just a warning about the difficulty I had with mine.

Guess that I will be getting those Bridgestone Potenza RE960AS Pole Position tires after all.[/b]

Interesting. I just got back from the tire shop where I had Goodyear Eagle F1 All Season XL 225/40ZR-18's mounted on my stock wheels. They seem to fit fine, shop had no problem mounting them, but from reading through the forum, this is probably not the best idea. So I plan to go back and either switch them out (came with a 30-day trial period) or I might just buy new wheels.

[shadesofgray19]

225/45 are an alternate size in place of the 215/45 that are stock according to the tire size sticky. Just read a review in a magazine, think it was Modified Magazine, on the Eagle F1 and they gave it good reviews. Was thinking of these, but I guess not if they won't fit.