I'm a little worried about fitting pure rally tires as it'd be nice to take the same wheels for a weekend ski trip, but honestly I hike a lot more than I ski, so if Rally tires are the bees knees for what I'm doing, then so be it.
What would be the best tire for "trail approach" usage?*
I was planning to put proper street tires on the 17" wheels and use the 16's as my "trailhead" wheels, but I'm now having second thoughts about tearing up my nice '99 RS wheels since I liked using them on the street (and I like the way they look) and as summer approaches the trailhead roads will be less sand and more rocks/gravel, which seems harder on wheels.Īlso, tires? I hate these Conti M+S tires on the street, but the tread-block design works way better than "performance summer" tires on sand. Now that I'm raising the WRX for use as a trailhead approach vehicle, I've since fitted Continental M+S in 205/55-16 for the winter/spring trips to the desert. Also have a set of 2006 WRX 17" wheels to clear these brakes. I was happily running nice sticky street tires on a set of '99 RS 5-spokes (16x7). Any others? Not sure I need super-duper tough, but they will get used off-road. What (preferably cheap) wheels are available in 15" that will fit these? I've seen the Team Dynamics Rally wheel over these in pictures on this forum. I've got a 2002 WRX wagon, fitted with the Subaru 4pot/2pot setup from an '06 WRX TR.