mondeo tyre size

[bluetoon]

can i fit 225 50 16 tyres on my mondeo. they are fitted with 205 55 16 at the moment. would it make any differnce to handling etc.

[chas2008]

as the profile is different the rolling radius would give an incorrect speedo reading, probably not much but it would be wrong.

[ChuckFickens]

although Chas is correct, changing the profile of the tyres does also change the rolling circumference of the wheel in this instance, because the profile is expressed as a percentage of the tyre width the decrease in profile is pretty much canceled out by the increase in width and your overall rolling circumference will only be 0.08% smaller.

this will effect your speedo very slightly, a previous reading of 70MPH would now read 69.94MPH so not really a big enough difference to worry about.

[bluetoon]

thanks for all the answers. they have been very helpfull .