Okay I'm looking at this set of wheels and tires for my 01 CL-S.

Now, I have a completely stock set up, and noticed a guy was selling rims from his Accord (figured they have the same 5 bolt pattern), but they're 19 and he has 2 sets of wheels on them.

2 with 215/35/19 Tires
And 2 with 225/35/19 Tires

With

19x7.5 44 offset 4x144.3 & 5x114.3

So I've got 2 questions, and I know I'm going to sound ignorant and retarded but I rode the short bus to school - what are all the numbers in the 215/35/19 (beyond the 19), and what is the effect of the offset?

Lastly, will these fit?

 

Everything you need to know about tires..........
http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tiretech/tiretech.jsp

Read that, & then read the Acura FAQ to get the correct CL specific recommended wheel & tires sizes.

 

It would look like he has the same rims with 2 different tire width's. This was how the NSX was set up as well, it kind of a bitch when it comes to rotating your tires, but an effective set up on a md engine rear drive car.

On an accord or any other type of front drive car, it's pretty ghetto and not usefull at all unless you run the wider tires on the front (drive wheels) and even then it's still ghetto.

Any way, the 215/225 number refers to the width and the 35 refers to the side wall height.

 

Glad I found this thread I'm the one selling the wheels and I did run at 215/35/19 all the way around but when I found a good deal on other tires (4) 225/35/19 Toyos which were pretty much new I found out 2 of them were damaged after I got them to my place that's why I have 2 types of sizes and the 225/35 are just a little wider the hight does not change really and you can't notice they are not the same size tire at all. Also feel free to come and test fit them if needed when you get a chance they fit most 4 and 5 lug cars and the offset will work on a CL/TL.

 

As long as you keep the same size on the same axle, its won't matter much...cross em and you're really gonna piss off your ABS. The bolt pattern is correct, and the second number in the tire size does refer to the sidewall height of the tires...but they are not the same. See for some reason, the guys that were designing tire standards (europeans no doubt) decided to make the second number an aspect ratio, so you've got a side wall height of 215mm x .35 and 225mm x .35 or 75.25mm and 78.75mm.

Doesn't seem like much, but when you think about the circumference of the tire, each revolution of the axels is spinning the bigger tires about an inch farther than the smaller tires.... make sense?

Anyway, I wouldn't recommend getting 19's anyway. Sure they look cool, but the inch difference up from 18s will not justify the outragous price for those oddball tires when its time to replace them.

 

good point your asking for problems if you run the 2 types of sizes on each side, other then that if you run them on each front and rear it will be fine. Tires pretty much have the same diameter just a little thinner 8.85in vs 8.46in.

 

dude, put the 225's in the front and the 215 in the back if you are dead set on getting them. offset should be fine and the 225/35 is the closest to our stock tire size ratio. the tire guy is right though, unless they are a really good price, just get 18's and slam it...lol..gl