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I would like a smaller wheel and beefier tire. I think I read somewhere that a 16" rim will fit.
Thanks for any info.
Thanks for any info.
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Will the Maverick take 16" rim.
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Don't believe it fits over the brake rotors. Edit: see dnelly post from Mar 23.
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Method racing claims that their 707 in size 16x7 +15 will fit. I emailed them asking if this was an error but they stood by it.
You could buy one and test fit it on all four corners before shelling out 1200 for the whole set. This is what I plan on doing if no one else has tried them by the time my stock tires need to be replaced.
You could buy one and test fit it on all four corners before shelling out 1200 for the whole set. This is what I plan on doing if no one else has tried them by the time my stock tires need to be replaced.
Just curious, is there some advantage to 16" wheels?
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I am old, I would like for sidewall on the tire. I would never use a 20 or 22. Just for style?
Tirerack and Discount Tires Direct both say that they haven't found any 16" wheels that will fit over the Maverick brake rotors. It's the rear larger diameter solid rotors that are the issue. Many people assume that the Maverick shares the same brake parts with the Bronco Sport which is able to utilize 16" wheels but due to towing requirements the Maverick uses larger rotors. We had one member here who questioned it and thought they could fit 16" wheels but they would not fit over the rear rotors. Just stick with 17" wheels, the extra .5" of sidewall isn't going to give you that much better of a ride.
Softer ride, lower cost tires. But Poverty looks and worse handling are down sides.
I'm old, too. But never had a compelling reason to change wheel size to something other than what came on a vehicle. I might replace the steelie-wheelies when I get my XL because I hear they are cheap and start rusting early on (even outside the rust belt). But the replacement wheels would be 17s - with A/T tires for my long steep-ish gravel road. IMO, there's plenty of sidewall on the stock sizes.
To bad as smaller wheels are always cheaper. tires less too. Are you guys racing around corners in a truck? If so you bought the wrong vehicle. I don't get the obsession with big wheels. On a Truck they look like crap in my opinion, Big wheels with small sidewalls are for sports cars. More sidewall is better for off roading too. .
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I saw this thread before but was having trouble finding it again. Thanks for helping me out!
Dnelly says here that they used a different wheel than the one I’m talking about. That part number is for the 16x7 +30. Method themselves know that this one won’t work, but when contacted they claim that it will work with the +15 offset version, part number MR70767049515. I think the Dnelly post has scared people away from giving it a try.
I don't blame people for not wanting to run a +15 offset, more wear and tear on wheel bearings, ruined scrub radius which means potentially dangerous handling under emergency braking situations. It also makes sense why tirerack and discount tire say no 16" wheels would work since they would never recommend using a wheel with an offset like that. It would be pushing the wheel outwards an inch.....not good
I am changing out the 17's for 18's. Much better look. Then when the tires wear out, I'll go taller tires too, so the wheel wells don't look so huge, and more pothole and ride friendly.
Well that was a fun rabbit hole to go down. I had never heard of these issues before.
It looks like the wheel bearings could potentially be a “necessary collateral damage” kind of issue. There’s no way to know how much of an effect the offset will have on this particular application until tested. To clarify I’m not saying that it may or may not cause extra strain, it will, just that it may not be a huge issue. If it only knocks ~5k miles off of the life of the bearing then some people may be willing to make the trade off. Less so if it means new bearings every 7k.
You seem to be a lot more knowledgeable on this topic so maybe you can help me out with this scrub radius stuff. It seems to me that the change in scrub radius could be accounted for with the right tire size, is this correct? It would require some tricky geometry calculations but I feel like it is theoretically possible.
Unfortunately you cannot remedy a change in scrub radius with a wider tire. Scrub radius is correlated to the centerline of the tire contact patch which will always be the same as the centerline of the wheel. What I'm saying is that a 225/75R16 tire on a 16x7 +15 wheel is going to have the same exact scrub radius as a 255/75r16 tire on the same 16x7 +15 wheel. As for wheel bearings, Ford isn't exactly known for using the best quality wheel bearings to begin with but that's up to whatever your wallet can withstand.
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