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Old Sep 1, 2007 | 08:11 PM
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Hey everyone. I was searching on Ebay, just trying to find a cheap set of wheels that I can mount some snow tires on, or possibly find a wheel and tire package to get for the wife's Mazda 5 and I didn't find much.
Any sugestions on where to look or what to search on? All I'm coming up with are wheels that would be 17-18 inch, definitly not winter wheels.
Thanks in advance
 
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Old Sep 5, 2007 | 11:34 AM
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Look at Tire Rack. Ishop there. The only listing is 17" wheels. Not sure why one cannot drop down to 16" wheels. Maybe something with suspension or brakes. Philip.
 
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Old Sep 5, 2007 | 12:54 PM
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it's the brakes. the front rotors are HUGE. good luck finding cheap snow tires. You are stuck with a low profile tire, leaving your snow choices pretty limited. I can attest that the low pro blizzaks were nice back in the day, but now there are other good offerings like nokian hakkapelitta(i can vouch for these...FANTASTIC winter "gription"), dunlop winter sport and the pirelli carvers.
 
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Old Sep 5, 2007 | 02:14 PM
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I run 205/50R17 Dunlop Wintersport M3's on my wife's Mazda6 and they are incredible. I never had any problems and I do a ton of snow driving, including some pretty deep stuff, so long as the depth was less than the bottom of the front fascia, it was like I was driving on pavement.
 
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