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mike58 · Nov 18th, 2006, 09:09 PM

I have ordered sports susp on my new cooper but with 15 inch 175/65 tyres.
The thinking behind this is as follows
It is more fun to slide a 120BHP car on narrow tyres hence the 175s
I don't want the car to roll much hence the stiffer suspension , if I need more grip I will change to 16 or 17 rims with wider ( not runflat ) tyres.
I am thinking of running the car in the winter with the narrow tyres and posing in the summer with a set of fat tyres on big rims.
Drove an R56 today ( Cooper , standard susp with 17s) very good , pretty firm setup but my guess was the tyre pressures were too high, couldn't ask the dealer to check as i would have looked an incredible anorak in front of my two boys, but the car was big time better than my last 2003 mini.
In red the car has way too much black beneath the doors it HAS to have sideskirts , a bargain at only 545 pounds!!

Nov 18th, 2006, 09:09 PM	#24
mike58 MINI2 Regular My Classifieds Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: uk, Glasgow Local Time: 04:50 PM Posts: 194 Offline	I have ordered sports susp on my new cooper but with 15 inch 175/65 tyres. The thinking behind this is as follows It is more fun to slide a 120BHP car on narrow tyres hence the 175s I don't want the car to roll much hence the stiffer suspension , if I need more grip I will change to 16 or 17 rims with wider ( not runflat ) tyres. I am thinking of running the car in the winter with the narrow tyres and posing in the summer with a set of fat tyres on big rims. Drove an R56 today ( Cooper , standard susp with 17s) very good , pretty firm setup but my guess was the tyre pressures were too high, couldn't ask the dealer to check as i would have looked an incredible anorak in front of my two boys, but the car was big time better than my last 2003 mini. In red the car has way too much black beneath the doors it HAS to have sideskirts , a bargain at only 545 pounds!!