This is a question for guys with 18" wheels.How your car handles since you switched to 18" wheels.Better or worse?What hapened with response of the car?

I found that the ride quality suffered a bit because of the low profile tyres and stiffer sidewall, but this also made it a bit less wallowy in the bends. Overall it was better on smooth roads and worse on bad roads, but the biggest improvement was the looks.

Steering wheel feedback is improved, you can feel exactly what the fronts are doing, the negative to this is; if you drive over say, a coin, not only can you tell what the value of the coin is, but you can also get the year of manufacture through the wheel.

It can be too much !

I had 225/35-17 before 18" wheels.Now i have new set of falken 215/35-18 tyres all around with 18" wheels but i think that somehow my car handling is worse.I dont know how.Maybe i need new wheel alignment

LOL - I ran them a couple of psi lower than the standard pressure as it gave better traction and a bit less roughness.

It just felt better on those wheels.

You have to remember that aluminium is heavier than rubber, so normally, going to 18" will have an adverse effect on unsprung weight, gyroscopic effect, and even acceleration

I thought long and hard about going for 18" but decided to stick with 17" in order to get the bit of extra compliance

Totally agree with everything above, especially the bit from Jimbo about the coins, value, year it was made and even if its heads or tails you've just driven over!
But ontop of all that, it makes the car look lovely, more modern.

They sure do make the car look better

This thread is useless without pictures

This was with 17"

Now 18"

And more 18"

Sorry.









Cant wait to get her back.