Adopting High Performance Tires for your daily drive is a mere step to implement tips for easy modification (upgrade), furthermore when you are after for the ultimate overall look on your car, attractive appearance is a flip away from factory standard looking Wheel Rim and Tires combination.
Aggressive big wheel rims mates to lower ratio High Performance Tires will easily turn any car into another dimension, the biggest rim with the lowest ratio available.
Though the best performance might be the other way around to the best looking appearance, likewise sporty handling as opposed to comfortable ride. The most challenging parts is to decide which set of combination of wheel rim and tires to suit your final objective. A compromised ride and handling objective may not necessarily turn your car look as aggressive as you possibly wish for, but for a daily drive car is the best option to choose for.
Country road quality may be sufficient to some, but varies accordingly and most part do not even meet basic standard condition whereby certain states or provincial regions have tarmac or asphalt top layering with often pothole here and there. Worst some countries do have pothole and uneven surface along their toll road section . Whichever you are driving the choice of wheel rim tire combination plays important role in guarding your safety let alone performance oriented driving.
Those driving on 40% sub par quality roads must adhere safety practice, at most 55, 60 or even 65 tire ratio should be opted for wise choice selection. Expensive wheel rim would not be suitable either, unless the driver knows intimately her car and the road she travels. Today production cars are equipped with lower ratio than the above choices rendering soaring high tire maintenance costs.
Costs which reflect not only rims and tires but may extend to steering as well as suspension replacement parts! Depending on your application we have a few Wheel Rim and Tires configuration to adopt as real scenario example cases; 50 ratio on small city hatchback car, Daihatsu Sirion or known as Perodua elsewhere. There is no noticeable grip improvement albeit slight better straight line stability on high speed driving, but consequently ride quality is rapidly degrading to harsh on bad surface. (P205/50R16 : Plus 2 Upgrade)
60 ratio on small minibus, Suzuki APV. Larger 2" rim diameter to 16", initially intended for higher ground clearance. Better stopping distance with slight ride harshness on uneven surface going to worst on pothole. Typical Ladder Chassis and rear leaf spring for more rugged driving and higher cargo hauling capacity enhances slight jumpy right on the edge of fairly close to choppy but surprisingly still better than that configuration of Sirion, yet on full cargo haul it somehow dampen a bit. (P205/60R16 : Plus 2 Upgrade)
65 ratio, 1997 Honda Accord on original OEM Rim also higher ground clearance purposes. There is no difference on either ride nor handling, certainly this car has much better chassis composure. At smaller track width of 195 wide the ride seems to be more civilized. Accordingly if we stick to 60 ratio with 195 wide, grip gain objective is not completely forgone with reasonable ride trade off. (P195/65R15)
Certainly a suitable configuration may depend on your individual taste, accordingly considering my own cases above, preference, driving habit and local public road, the best objective for balance ride and handling seems to be retaining the original Wheel Rim and then merely Tires Upgrade!
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