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      08-25-2011, 11:38 AM   #1
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Is it just me or..?

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I got my car from a BMW dealership around 2 months ago. While snapping a picture of my 2008 RWD 128i, I noticed that my rear wheels/tires seem to be smaller. Is it just me seeing an optical illusion or the dealership put the wrong set of set wheels/tires on the wrong end...because that would be dumb.

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      08-25-2011, 11:39 AM   #2
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are you sure your fronts are not in the rears and the rears are in the fronts cause that really looks like they swapped it. idiots lol. LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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      08-25-2011, 11:42 AM   #3
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Well cant you just check the tire info? lols
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215 front and 245 rear i believe for tire sizes. this made my day lol.
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the rear sure looks funny
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215 front and 245 rear i believe for tire sizes. this made my day lol.
I bought my car in Southern California, but now I am in Palo Alto. Will a Certified BMW dealership swap them for free?

I don't want to pay for someone else's mistakes!
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Interesting.. I would think with the 245 in front you might rub but maybe not haha.. there are some people who need to be fired for making this type of mistake lol..
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Interesting.. I would think with the 245 in front you might rub but maybe not haha.. there are some people who need to be fired for making this type of mistake lol..
I will check the tire specs when I have time to go down to the garage during lunch.
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Interesting.. I would think with the 245 in front you might rub but maybe not haha.. there are some people who need to be fired for making this type of mistake lol..
not at stock height.
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Uh... Isn't 215 or 245 is a width/track measurement? All four wheels should have the same diameter/height, or so it is my understanding. The rear wheels/tires aren't *taller* than the fronts, they're *wider* (in other words, if you have 18s, then you have 18" wheels in all four wells). So swapping the fronts and rears and then looking at them from the side shouldn't produce any visible disparity. (Unless I'm just completely wrong here?)

At any rate, I see no problem here. If you copy/paste one wheel on top of the other one in Photoshop they're clearly the same size.
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u be wrong mon. For the tires its 40 series in front 35 series in back.
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Oh I see, so the wheels are the same size but the tires have different heights?
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yep; looking at his pics again i think John nailed it...seems like the taller tires are in back lols..poor op
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215 front and 245 rear i believe for tire sizes. this made my day lol.
This statement would still be incorrect, then, or at least it looks at the wrong dimension.
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well u can look at either 40 series or 215..which both should be stated on the front tire
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Anyway, I went back to Photoshop and did the cut and paste again, and the tire widths appear to be the same, or the difference is too small to see. You'd have to get a ruler and actually measure it.
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My rims/tires are stock - straight out of the dealership.

I will post pictures of the specs soon and may you guys help with some feedback later?
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This thread reminds me of this picture. I throw this one at my students sometimes just for the sheer pleasure of boggling their minds when I tell them than A and B are the same color. They never believe me, of course, at which point I throw it into Photoshop and trim out everything but A and B, and voila -- minds explode. :-)
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Uh... Isn't 215 or 245 is a width/track measurement? All four wheels should have the same diameter/height, or so it is my understanding. The rear wheels/tires aren't *taller* than the fronts, they're *wider* (in other words, if you have 18s, then you have 18" wheels in all four wells). So swapping the fronts and rears and then looking at them from the side shouldn't produce any visible disparity. (Unless I'm just completely wrong here?)

At any rate, I see no problem here. If you copy/paste one wheel on top of the other one in Photoshop they're clearly the same size.
no, if the front really is installed in the back then the rears will look very sunk in causing the rears to look physically smaller. believe me I've messed with wheels/tire sizes AND photoshop enough to know
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Which doesn't mean, by the way, that I'm not going to grab my trusty ruler and go check my tires anyway..... :-)
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no, if the front really is installed in the back then the rears will look very sunk in causing the rears to look physically smaller. believe me I've messed with wheels/tire sizes AND photoshop enough to know
Okay, I guess that just means that you can't go by the picture -- you have to actually look at the numbers (as you were saying).
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in his case the front wheel is pushed out due to it being a bigger size and the rear wheel is small due to it being sunk in. lol.
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