Off Roading on 18" wheels?? - Page 2

Hummerguy,
 
The red racing edition Hummer on your post is a possible exception.  Maybe it's the beadlocks.  Sorry guys, I guess I'm just old-fasioned as I just "don't get" the big rims and short tire thing.  I don't see the point.  They just remind me of the stuff that all the inner-city dope/crack dealers put on their cars because the have too much drug money in their pockets, and they think anything gaudy, that looks like a pimp-mobile is cool.  i.e., they have no taste.  So when I see it on anything else, I just see the '75 Caddy with the 24" gold spinners.  Sorry if I offended, I was just throwing out my opinion, along with everybody else. 
 
I saw two guys the other night, that were both driving '92 Crown Vics with the $3000 dollar custom paint jobs, that had been jacked up and converted to 4X4.  I didn't get that either.  I just think it looks stupid.

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ORIGINAL: Hummer Guy

With that wheel you're probably going to have a wider tire - which you can still get an agressive tire, and you're only losing one inch of sidewall.  Keep in mind, airing down is to give yourself a wider footprint...by having a wider tire installed, you will lessen the need to air down to get sidewall traction.  Now, serious rock climbing when the tire really grabs on, you may see a difference...but the main danger is just scratching and denting when larger rocks get tossed around -- I wouldn't let it hold you back from buying the wheels, though.

 
 
I'd give more credit to the importance of the airing down of a tire allowing it to conform to an object.  Something as simple as traversing a log on a road, at full presure the tire may just push the log along.  It the tire is able to wrap around the log and begin puting weight down on it to hold it in place the tire will continue over it.  In  my book, it's a 50-50 deal.
 
I remember the days when the guys running 16s were given a hard time for there big wheels and there car (p-metric) tires.  Then there were the real pavement pounders with 16.5s.
 
 
Feez, you need to get past your stereotypes.
 
 

We're still running with p-metrics BTW. But you mention about the old days but you have to remember you had drum brakes/Bias-Ply all the way around too, so you didn't have a rim fitment issue like today were the Disc Brake/Steel Belted Radials is now the norm. Oh and the Red Hummer has Faux beadlocks BTW it just has the look.

I'm not complaining, I'll take the trade off of having to run 16s for decent brakes.

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ORIGINAL: Steve #1

I'd give more credit to the importance of the airing down of a tire allowing it to conform to an object.  Something as simple as traversing a log on a road, at full presure the tire may just push the log along.  It the tire is able to wrap around the log and begin puting weight down on it to hold it in place the tire will continue over it.  In  my book, it's a 50-50 deal.

 
Ehh - I rarely, if ever, air down the tires for off-roading.  Some obstacles may require a little more punch/momentum, but controled aggression towards a log, to me, is easier than airing down.  That's not to say that there aren't situations that airing down would be preferable, I just think a lot of people air down when they don't need to.   

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ORIGINAL: Hummer Guy

 I just think a lot of people air down when they don't need to.   

 
but it sure makes 45 mph on washboard a lot more comfortable . . . . . .

I have taken mine offroad with the same wheels with out a problem so far.

Hmmm I am running 18's on 37's  Do I look ghetto????
 
 
Yeah I did not think so........


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definitely ghetto !
 
now, if you got rid of the ladder, not so much ghetto . . . . . . . .  

I was setting up my tree stand that day.  You need those when hunting deer in the hood! lol

Here is one of those situations where you NEED to air down!  If not, you will not gey out of the parking lot.
 

 

My stock 33s at 15PSI.

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ORIGINAL: shortbus

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ORIGINAL: Hummer Guy

I just think a lot of people air down when they don't need to.   

but it sure makes 45 mph on washboard a lot more comfortable . . . . . .

 
15PSI on sand and you'd feel like you're driving your grandfather's DTS...

the drive from the pavement to the racetrack in Death Valley was brutal - no sand.  go give it a try on 38 psi . . . . . . . .
 
i don't know what a DTS is, but driving my grandfather's scout was a hoot . . . . . . . . .

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ORIGINAL: Hummer Guy

Ehh - I rarely, if ever, air down the tires for off-roading.  Some obstacles may require a little more punch/momentum, but controled aggression towards a log, to me, is easier than airing down.  That's not to say that there aren't situations that airing down would be preferable, I just think a lot of people air down when they don't need to.   

 
True sometimes, and sometimes the opposite is true. 
 
I'm probably more likely to air down than others, but it gives me the warm fuzzys knowing the tires are giving every bit of ground a big hug.

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ORIGINAL: shortbus

i don't know what a DTS is, but driving my grandfather's scout was a hoot . . . . . . . . .

 
A big ole Caddy -- replaced the Deville...