24's are for wimps...

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Originally Posted by XXL

So your "rule of thumb" would have 16" wheels on 90% of the trucks from the 1990's and older. That may be a bit restrictive. The key (or so I think) is to balance the visual cues on the vehicle. 15's didn't do that on many vehicles, but that's all the marketplace offered the OEMs without spending a small fortune on special castings and selling their souls to the tire manufacturers. So... 15's it was. The marketplace has taken a pendulum swing with the advent of more effective (and cheaper) casting techniques, thus allowing anybody with $50k in their pocket and the ability to draw a circle and then stay inside the lines to make a wheel. With pressure from the growing wheel market (and simpler tire carcass production methods), the tire companies have kept pace. Now we have the OEM's on the other end of the deal, able to pick and choose among wheel vendors... so new vehicles have gone bigger and bigger-- again, not so much because of styling cues, but because that's what's being offered. (Of course, the marketing departments get involved and make big hay about the jumbo wheel "style"...).

OK, my dissertation is running dry. That's all.

Yeah ....I know that that would be only putting 16s on many vehicles,I dont care for large wheels (17+)on most vehicles some it looks good on. I'm just partial to 15s