[stephen low]

Was doing a bit of reading yesterday and all the articles I read including VicRoads own guidance document to car roadworthiness testing talked about S rated tyres as being ther minimum standard.

This being case doesn't that make them legal or do the ADRs somehow over-ride and lift this standard further?

I am also asking a similar question of my engineer at the moment but though recent experience here might generate a quick answer.

If forced to get new tyres I'd look immediately at replacing the rims too, though this was planned a bit further down the track. Had originally wanted to stay with the old 15" 60 series tyre look but have gotten use to the 50 profile on the front tyres but the 15" rim generates way too much gap above the tyre to the mud guards. However it is my rears that have the suspect rating, the fronts are V rated.

Going say 16" rims is there a large range of rims and 50's tyres in this size to choose from? I want to run Halibrand look and would be happy with middle of the range dish though I suspect the GF can accomodate quite a deep dish variant.

Any discussion would be great.

Cheers