Wheels and tires are often what make a ride stand out. Add in the perfect stance and you have one head-turning ride. However, any enthusiast will tell you that getting that perfect ride height, wheel fitment, and tire sizing down can be somewhat frustrating. Borrowing wheels and test fitting them is certainly an option, but gets old fast, and really only works if you have a lot of friends willing to lend you their wheels with matching bolt pattern. Listening to the online social media groups and forums about what fits can be hit or miss, as they may not have the exact same setup as your vehicle when it comes to suspension, brakes, and rear axle width. Realistically, the best way to know exactly what is going to fit your ride is to measure.
One of the best solutions for measuring wheel fit has been a wheel fit simulator, such as our line of WheelWise™ . These provide users with the ability to test fit their desired tire size into the vehicle’s wheel opening and confirm wheel backspacing and offset so wheels can be ordered or custom built if need be. The one drawback has been the requirement to have the physical tire to mount to the tool itself. While having the actual tire confirms fitment and clearance, there are times where someone may not be exactly sure what tire size that they want to run or that can fit the wheel opening. Or you may already have a set of wheels you know fit but are curious as to what is the widest tire you may be able to fit on said wheels. In these cases, using a tire simulator in conjunction with our wheel fit simulator provides you with the ultimate tool to confirm wheel sizing and tire sizing for your project vehicle. Our WheelWise™ tire fitment tool is the perfect tire visualizer, combining the base lug plate of our WheelWise™ wheel fitment tool with an additional tire simulator add-on.
Using our WheelWise™ line of wheel fit simulators as a starting point, we designed a tire simulator attachment that works directly with our WheelWise™ wheel simulator’s center lug plate. This tire size visualizer includes the 5-lug standard plate from our WheelWise™ wheel simulator tool and is designed to simulate tires from 14 to 22 inches in rim diameter, with 8 to 14 inches in width and a sidewall height of 2.5 to 11.5 inches. This means that our WheelWise™ tire simulator can easily go from a low profile performance tire to a 14-inch wide drag slick with a tall sidewall in just a few minutes by simply loosening the tool-free fasteners and making a few adjustments to the sliders. If you already own one of our WheelWise™ wheel fitment tools, you can purchase just the separately as well.
There’s no need to worry if you’re not sure what tire size will clear your ride’s suspension or wheel openings either. You can use the patent pending WheelWise™ tire simulator to verify a specific tire size you have in mind or use it to its full potential and find the largest tire you can stuff in your wheel opening for maximum handling, traction, and braking needs. The three sliders built into the tool allow quick changes to overall tire width, tire sidewall height, and tire spacing in relation to the wheel to find the best fit for your application, all without having to borrow or purchase a tire size that may not work for you. The sliders feature easy to read laser etched measurements in both SAE and metric, so you can best determine the modern P-metric tire size or old school standard tire size for your hot rod, classic pickup, or muscle car. Speedway Motors’ WheelWise™ tire and wheel simulator together provide an accurate and easy to use solution to that timeless question of whether a specific wheel and tire fitment will fit your ride.