I just find out that one of the previous owners put 175 65r15 tires on my used 09 Focus. The right size is 195 60r15. So I went to a shop and bought two toyo 195 tires for the back only. Then when i get paid ill get the front ones next week. I needed to change the rear ones because one was flat and both were in bad shape. My work is only like 15m away, will this affect anything since my car is a fwd, I belive it is? The guy at the tire shop said it will be fine but I like to hear other peoples opinions.
They are within 3% so it should be ok. Are the front tires ok? Like good tread? Or close to worn out? Every focus I see in the junkyard has 4 good tires. And alum rims usually. No one wants them.
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No problem. Drive on.
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Close to worn out. Are the RS and ST the only one that gets love? Everywhere I go with this one i dont see happy faces lol.
Since we live in a country full of lawyers a tire shop is not going to give wrong advice. Not sure why you would doubt the shop but want unknown people with unknown credential’s from the web.
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Your wheels may be the same on front/back. Shouldn’t assume anything. Your tires are different sizes or bigger/smaller as you say. The OD is actually about 1% different which is barely imperceptible. I’ve seen many 16” focus wheels at junkyard. You could upgrade to fancy wheels if you want for cheap.
Yes all four wheels are the sime size. The tires are different. Sorry I edited the topic.
Mechanically wise, there is not a big enough difference between the two sizes to affect the ABS/TRAC systems…
Don’t overthink it, run em and move on…
BTW: probably better to ask before buying something then asking after you already paid for the product…
Don’t buy a house in Florida and then ask if they have Hurricanes, and don’t buy a house in Michigan and then ask if they get snow…
Do your home work 1st…
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Cool thanks!
Thanks for the advice but I did ask the employee first before he put them on and he said it was fine. So after putting the new tires, I kept thinking and just wanted to hear peoples opinion in the forum. Theres been so many cases where mechanics screw someone over. I needed tires right away due to work. Cant be paying an uber 40 something dollars a day.
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Yep, no problem double checking the shop’s advice.
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Like the mechanic that overfilled my engine. Its over max. He said is fine it will settle on its own and nothing will happen. But accros the web and owners manual says its a bad thing.
That would be the salesman selling you the tire, not the mechanic…
How far above “max” is it? A relatively small amount of “overfill” is not going to hurt the engine. Can you estimate just how far (1/4 inch, 1/2 inch, 1 inch… ?) it is over the “max line”?
When checking the oil, the engine is Off right??
And are you pulling the dipstick, wiping the dipstick clean, putting the dipstick back in the dipstick tube and then pulling it again to check the oil level??
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Yes and yes.
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Over the max line. Like an inch or 2.
That’s definitely overfilled, and you should have it corrected a.s.a.p., as engine damage can take place.
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There will be a greater difference between make/model of tires than a simple size change, and you need to be aware that this difference MIGHT result in some unusual emergency maneuver characteristics. The problem here is you have to do an emergency maneuver to find out - and that could be dangerous. Your best bet is to try an almost emergency maneuver in a time and place where you can do so without consequences if things go wrong.
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You will need to remember that the tire sizes are different and later, when (rather if…) you rotate the tires, the larger tires will affect the indicated speed of the vehicle. And there is also the possibility that the minimum wage (most likely with no training or experience…) rotates your tires, they might mistakenly put the same tire back on the original spot and you would wind up with one large tire up front and the other on the rear… That would be bad for the transmission and it would confound the tire pressure monitoring system (TPMS). Just things to look out for…
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