Low profile tyres
Aug 7, 2016 18:48:05 GMT
Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2016 18:48:05 GMT
A topic done to death on other fora....but;
I was just wandering a street in Netanya (a town on the Mediterranean cost 25km north of Tel Aviv), and decided to be a nerd and look at the general profile of tyres attached to cars. There is a broad mix of European, Korean and Japanese cars, of varying ages, although given the size of the market (small), there tends to be no more than two engine/trim combinations per model. So for top of the range cars you see a lot of petrol engines, which you don't see here (Audi Q7 4.2 V8 anyone?).
Apart from a very small number of cars like the aforementioned Audi, the majority of cars have steel wheels and the tyres are certainly higher profile by at least 10 points; i.e. 65 instead of 55. This was very noticeable when we rented a Nissan Juke four Christmases ago. The rental car had higher profile tyres and had a far superior ride than the car we eventually acquired at home. I wish you were able to choose the profile of the wheel/tyre combination when you bought a new car rather than being forced into low profile tyres the higher up the trim range you go.
I was just wandering a street in Netanya (a town on the Mediterranean cost 25km north of Tel Aviv), and decided to be a nerd and look at the general profile of tyres attached to cars. There is a broad mix of European, Korean and Japanese cars, of varying ages, although given the size of the market (small), there tends to be no more than two engine/trim combinations per model. So for top of the range cars you see a lot of petrol engines, which you don't see here (Audi Q7 4.2 V8 anyone?).
Apart from a very small number of cars like the aforementioned Audi, the majority of cars have steel wheels and the tyres are certainly higher profile by at least 10 points; i.e. 65 instead of 55. This was very noticeable when we rented a Nissan Juke four Christmases ago. The rental car had higher profile tyres and had a far superior ride than the car we eventually acquired at home. I wish you were able to choose the profile of the wheel/tyre combination when you bought a new car rather than being forced into low profile tyres the higher up the trim range you go.
