19 car wheel rims
I’m looking at buying a Kuga but it’s got 19” wheels, I’ve Googled about 19” wheel rims in general but apart from looking good and ending up with car nuts in Oz & California there’s little else on them. Are they any good for towing, off road etc
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You will have a hard ride and expensive tyres. If the model/spec Kuga you need has 19’s simply buy some smaller Kuga rims on fleabay and fit those. Either keep the 19’s or flog them. And unless you have all weather or mud and snow SUV tyres fitted it is likely the tyre width on 19’s will give no advantage to having 4wd. A two wheel drive car on all weather tyres is generally as good if not better than a seudo 4x4 on summer tyres.
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It's not the size of the rim that will determine how the car handles, but the tyre size/profile that is fitted on them. I'm not familiar with the Kuga, but imagine it will be a low profile tyre that will be fitted to 19" rims.
I used to have a Volvo R-design with 245/40 18" tyres, the low profile I feel made it a good tow car and improves the handling, as you get minimal side wall deflection, but the trade off is that you get a much harder ride. Indeed one of the main reasons I changed the car, was the ride aggravated my wife's joint pain. Low profile tyres are really more suited to sports cars, (although I wouldn't describe the V70 as such!) and are probably best left off 4x4's.
Check the following link for a good description of the difference between tyre profiles on the same car
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My Honda CRV black edition was on 19 inch and low profile tyres, the tyrdes were replaced at 6 months (5000 mile) and then again 5500 mile later so if you fancy paying £1400.00 a year on tyres, go for the 18 inch. For what it’s worth I complained to Honda and got nowhere but my dealer did a swap for 18 inch off there demo and didn’t buy another tyre in the next 19 month I owned it.
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Graemebf - the Kuga 235/45/r19 wheels give a very limited choice of tyres and there are no off road tyres that I am aware of for this size due to the low profile.
If you check out kugaownersclub.co.uk/forum. There is a section titled "Kuga non model specific general info" with a thread called "all mk1 and mk2 tyres info prices where to buy"
This thread is 36 pages long giving a wide range of tyre info. Owners with 19" wheels say that tyre choice is expensive and limited and most tyres available are noisy.
I own a kuga with 235/50/r18 wheels. There is much more choice with off road capabilities. My kuga has Michelin latitude cross tyres that have reasonable off road use for cl towing but quiet for road use. When towing the rear tyres have to be inflated from 32psi to 44psi. Hope this helps.
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50%? 55%? A tyre without a profile marked is 80% profile so therefore ANY tyre with a profile marked, is a low profile tyre. It's just that these days, some low profile tyres are more low profile than others. Mine are 255/50/19 so I suppose could be considered as low profile.
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Don't know how you come to that conclusion, it's simple enough. The profile is the ratio of the tyre wall compared to the tread width quoted as a percentage.
Any tyre with a 50 profile or lower (I. E. The tyre wall is 50% of the tread width) is considered low profile.
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Avoid rubber band tyres if you have any teeth fillings that you value.
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My Kuga had the standard 17" rims with 55 profile tyres. Anything more "sporty" is IMHO ridiculous on any SUV type vehicle. I've seen some Range Rovers with very low profile tyres and, quite frankly, they look stupid. We are talking 'tow cars' not 'track day cars'.
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I generally agree with CY but each to their own. My son has 22” alloys on his Cayenne and Evoque albeit with allweather tyres ( lives in Czech Republic). The ride on both isn’t too bad - the Evoque is actually surprisingly good and Pirelli tyres for that were £800 fitted all 4 wheels. However his previous RR Sport on 22’s was hopeless, rubbish ride, noisy, poor steering feel even though fitted with Toyo Proxes tyres. My recently sold Audi A2 came with 17’s, sport suspension and a truly terrible ride. Went to 15’s, soft suspension, in an attempt to keep my dental fillings intact.
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This will be last post on the subject, as you're obviously convinced that all tyres are low profile if they have a profile marked, although you're not convinced your 50 profile tyres are? And none of these posts are particularly answering the OP's question.
These days the only tyres that tend to not be marked with a profile are commercial tyres, and they are considered to have a profile of 80. Any car tyre not marked is considered to have a profile of 82% (taken from the MOT inspection manual). Just because a car tyre has the profile marked, it doesn't mean it is considered low profile.
40 years ago a car with a 70 profile or less may have been thought of as low, these days low profile is considered 50 or less.
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It depends on the wheel design and general aesthetics of the whole vehicle, EasyT. Large gaps between the wheel and wheel arches can look odd but are needed on an SUV to ensure there is adequate room for wheel articulation in all directions. I have 18’s on my VW B7 Alltrack (only option available in the UK) and am considering fitting some 17’s from a standard Passat to open up tyre choice and have deeper tyre sidewalls. The one flaw with my proposal is if I do the tyre sidewalls May be too bouncy when towing so end with the need for XL rated tyres to compensate! Stiffer sidewalls can improve steering responses and handling but also increase road noise.
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is it true that larger wheels use more mpg?
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As stated if you choose correctly nothing should change, for instance I can change to any of three size wheels on my car but keep the same rolling diameter.
235/65/17 or 235/60/18 or 235/55/19
I have found that 18" is a happy medium and more comfortable, but that's just me and my car
17" wheels were more wallowy in corners with too much sidewall and I can imagine that 19" would be more stable but a harder ride.
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well the only reason I asked is this sentence from carwow review of a Kia Niro hybrid I'm looking into:
Entry-level 2 models will return around 65mpg (compared to Kia’s claimed 74.3mpg) while higher spec 3 and 4 versions lose out by around 10mpg in real-world driving conditions because of their larger wheels
entry spec is 16 inch wheels while higher specs are 18 inch, I just wondered why the larger wheels mean less mpg?
This was also mentioned in other reviews, also on the specification sheet from Kia itself:
Fuel Consumption, mpg (l/100km) Urban 16" Alloy
74.3 (3.8)
Fuel Consumption, mpg (l/100km) Urban 18" Alloy
64.2 (4.4)post edit you can ask for 16 inch to be fitted on higher spec models as an option.
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oh and the plug in in hybrid only comes with 16 inch wheels and a combined electric plus petrol mpg of 217 miles!
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My experience reflects previous posts. Lower profile = harsher ride = better stability. Runflats harsher again. I would go with 18"
Regarding sidewall flex I have not noticed any difference towing between 60 and 50s. The only time I have found this noticable is on a 4x4 with 70 series
Cars are homologated with specific wheel and tyre sizes, one model may have several sizes approved. If you deviate from these sizes you will need to let your insurers know. Some even need advising if you change from summer to winter tyres!
Incidently, Cornersteady are you looking at the Kia Niro as a towcar?
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MM
in reply to how do 19 in wear out quicker than 18 in.
let me try to explain
the width of the 19 in tyre is greater than the 18in
19 in P Zero’s tend to be a winter tyre on high end motor vehicles, hence the compound build will cause them to wear quicker.
also the CRV has non adjustable camber and as they were wider than 18 inch this caused the inner edge to wear very quickly.
hope this now explains the reason👍
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No I'm not, we have a Sorrento with a large lovely diesel for that.
It's to be our second car, I mainly now do very low mileage, with most daily trips now only a few miles (shops and visiting relatives) but with some weekly trips further afield so the hybrid could be a good choice which can run on electricity for those low mileage trips but would then use petrol when needed.
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but our Sorrento gives mpg for different wheels as well though not so pronounced:
Fuel consumption, mpg (l/100km)
Combined 17" 49.6 (5.7) v 18" 47.1 (6.0)
so why is that?
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