20" Wheel Club
06-15-2009, 11:52 PM
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Nothing wrong with 20's so long as they have some meat and not rubberbands. 35's are a minimum. Some guy is running around my loc with 22's and rubberbands, I laughed right at him. He may have had a 4x2. Still cant believe Jeep did that. A 2wd Jeep, WTF.
09-06-2009, 07:36 PM
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09-06-2009, 07:40 PM
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11-24-2010, 05:36 AM
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It is difficult for a lot of us to swallow because the JK is attracting a line of customers that would have not previously thought about owning a wrangler. Jeeps were born with 4x4 and up until 2007 were only offered with 4x4. This limited sales to a certain type of customer. These guys build jeeps to take them offroad and 20" wheels are simply not wanted because of cost and likehood of getting damaged.
We don't want to see our beloved jeep turn into what the hummer has become. A street only driven 4x4 with large rims and street tires is pointless to a crew of people who build these jeeps to serve a purpose. So 20+ inch wheels on one of the best 4x4s ever built is a sin, plain and simple. If you the kind of person that thinks a jeep like this http://houston.craigslist.org/ctd/1051331150.html looks good then you are just not going to be popular here. Sorry.
Another reason guys don't like large rims is because we usually let a lot of air out of the tires when going off road for added traction. When you air the tires down you give the tires a chance to wrap around rocks and other obsticles which gives a lot more grip. If you take a 35" tire wrapped in a 20" rim that does not leave you much sidewall to wrap around an obsticle. Take a 35" on a 15" to 17" rim and then its a different story. With that said 20" wrapped in 37" to 40" tires meets the functional requirement in my opinion.
That's my $.02 on the subject. Flame away.
We don't want to see our beloved jeep turn into what the hummer has become. A street only driven 4x4 with large rims and street tires is pointless to a crew of people who build these jeeps to serve a purpose. So 20+ inch wheels on one of the best 4x4s ever built is a sin, plain and simple. If you the kind of person that thinks a jeep like this http://houston.craigslist.org/ctd/1051331150.html looks good then you are just not going to be popular here. Sorry.
Another reason guys don't like large rims is because we usually let a lot of air out of the tires when going off road for added traction. When you air the tires down you give the tires a chance to wrap around rocks and other obsticles which gives a lot more grip. If you take a 35" tire wrapped in a 20" rim that does not leave you much sidewall to wrap around an obsticle. Take a 35" on a 15" to 17" rim and then its a different story. With that said 20" wrapped in 37" to 40" tires meets the functional requirement in my opinion.
That's my $.02 on the subject. Flame away.
