biggest tire I can fit on these wheels

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So I have some oval cut cobra wheels, the 5-star ones. I think they are 17x8(correct me if Im wrong please), right now the fronts are 245's and the rears are 255's but the car I got them off of ran the inside of the tire down to the threads so I was wanting to know what the biggest size of tire I could fit on a 17x8 wheel is.
 

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255 is the widest that'll fit correctly (or at least that was our stock size), i had 275 Nittos on my Cobras and they fit well but the middle wears faster than the outside.
 
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So I could run 275 if I had to, but 255 would be preferred.
 

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255/45/17 is the biggest tire ever run on a 17x8 factory cobra rim. You could run a 275/40 but the contact patch would suffer. I run a 255/45 on my 99 cobra's and i love them
 

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yeah also Nittos run narrow, here's how mine looked, and after heating them at the track they hooked pretty solid.


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Those dont look bad at all...were they daily driven?
 
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Because my daily driver tires are pretty much gone. They are beginning to look like slicks in spots so I was looking for some tires I could use for my DD and I was just wondering if I could use 275's for that. And I didnt know if it would through off the car in any way.
 

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^ You'd probaly hook pretty good, very little to no wheel spin with the 40''s I would think, but I'm not a master tech with cars.... :dontknow:
 

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