Running different tire brands front/rear

LD68 · Aug 29, 2019

Ok, here is a crazy question. I plan on dropping my 94, been doing a lot of research, measurements, math...
I want to run 17s and am having trouble finding a tire that has the sizes I think will be needed for front and rear. Pretty sure it don't really matter as I have ran different brands or styles of tire front and rear before over the years. Do a lot of you guys run different style and or brands front and rear to get the sizes you need?
Edit to add: I am having luck staying within the same style/brand if I were to run 18" rear and 18" front.

sewlow · Aug 29, 2019

How low do you plan to go?

Cheap Heap · Aug 29, 2019

A lot of people run staggered sizes. A lot of cars even come from the factory with staggered sizes. Most do generally run the same model of tire front and rear but in reality as long as they’re quality tires, I don’t see why it would matter. I mean there are people on the road that literally run 4 different brands on all 4 corners. One tire goes bad, they replace one at a time with whatever is cheapest. Obviously, no one would ever recommend this but in reality it happens all the time.

What sizes are you looking at?

LD68 · Aug 29, 2019

sewlow said:
How low do you plan to go?

5ish/8ish haha

LD68 · Aug 29, 2019

Cheap Heap said:
A lot of people run staggered sizes. A lot of cars even come from the factory with staggered sizes. Most do generally run the same model of tire front and rear but in reality as long as they’re quality tires, I don’t see why it would matter. I mean there are people on the road that literally run 4 different brands on all 4 corners. One tire goes bad, they replace one at a time with whatever is cheapest. Obviously, no one would ever recommend this but in reality it happens all the time.

What sizes are you looking at?

I plan to run staggered. Would like a 275/55/17 rear and 235/55/17 front. My thing was finding these two sizes in the same brand/style, just an ocd thing.

LD68 · Aug 29, 2019

Planned wheels are Torq thrust ll. Thinking 17x7 zero offset for front, 17x9.5 rear 8mm offset. Figure I will need to trim lip in back, will see how the front looks when I get there.

RichLo · Aug 29, 2019

Cheap Heap said:
I mean there are people on the road that literally run 4 different brands on all 4 corners. One tire goes bad, they replace one at a time with whatever is cheapest. Obviously, no one would ever recommend this but in reality it happens all the time.

This reminded me of a 'family borrowed' beater civic that rolled into a shop I worked at in high school. That thing had 5 yes 5 different size wheels

13" mini spare mounted on the car
15" flat in the trunk that we had to patch to replace the mini spare
then in random order a 16", 17" and 20"

IIRC the 20" was the only one that had any sort of decent tread on it. It must have been the newest addition to replace some other flat it had before

sewlow · Aug 29, 2019

I've run 275's all the way around my black truck @ 4/7, no probs. Didn't have to roll the rear lip till I went with 295's. Now there's enough room I could maybe fit 315's. 305's for sure.
The front's are a 255. In a 20", but the wheel size doesn't make a diff in the actual width of the tire.
My '97 had to have the front lips rolled @ 2/4 with the 275's on it now.
Of course, the '98 needed the front lips rolled for any & every tire that's ever been on it as soon as it went down 4".

LD68 · Aug 29, 2019

So do you guys mix and match brands or styles of tire front to back or are you lucky enough to find the front size and back size in the same style tire?

sewlow · Aug 29, 2019

I've always managed to find tires from the same manufacturer, even with the staggered fitments. But yea, sometimes it takes a bit of searching.

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