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Originally Posted by TheSt|G
Probably because it endangers others.
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I am guessing you probably have never looked into stretching tires and are A) biased and B) uneducated on this topic.
I will say this:
Can stretching a tire become dangerous and be taken too far (too much stretch)? Yes. It absolutely can be. But if you run a mild stretch, it is very often within tire manufacturers specs for max width wheels a tire can be run on. I ran a 235/40/18 on 18x9.5 wheels and according to the Bridgestone website, that was perfectly acceptable. I routinely crushed S-turns and corners, pushing the car through corners (i like turns, what can i say?) and never once did i lose traction or see any decrease in performance through turns compared to running non-stretched tires. The argument that stretching tires is unsafe and hurts performance is a weak one honestly because in terms of a mild stretch, it is just simply not true.