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18" Touareg Manhattan's on 944?

Monkeythree said:
ETRTO allows for quite a large tolerance on width so one tyre makers 265 can end up quite different to another tyre makers 265 depending on how the manufacturer chooses to construct and mould the tyre. ETRTO also recognises that a tyre is potentially suitable to be fitted to a range of rim widths but one tyre maker might design their 265 to be optimised for a 9J rim and another might design theirs to be optimised for a 10J rim.

This is one of the reasons why OEM's ask tyre makers to mark their OE tyres with a specific designation (e.g. porsche N) to try to ensure the car retains optimum dynamics after a tyre change.
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The 4 PS2's I fitted are N rated, extra cost wasn't much.
 
It's all about compromise and your decision as to how you want to compromise.

I have 17" wheels because 16" wont fit over my brakes. I got fed up with bleeding brakes and like big brakes (Big Blacks).

The shorter walls do make the car more twitchy and direct, and less progressive to break away. They are more uncomfortable and more likely to tram line and noisier, and downright frightening in the snow. If you add racing seats, so you can feel what the car is doing more, you can really give yourself a thrill (and arrive at most places completely knackered).

Considering I can't fade the brakes under 17" wheels I can see no practical reason to fit 18" wheels unless you want to make the car more unpleasant to drive.
 
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