can i fit 215 on my 15x6.5 slips, or even 225???

 

yes

 

215/50-15 is an "oddball" size tire and you won't find any decent tires in that size. You'll be stuck with crappy tires like the BFG g-force Sport or Kumho 711. Real crap.

Get the proper size tire for your car:

195/50-15 for del sols, CRXs, and pre-'96 Civics
195/55-15 or 205/50-15 for Integras and '97-00 Civics

If you're looking for better performance, then get the stickiest tires you can, such as the Goodyear F1 GS-D3 in 195/50-15 or Falken Azenis RT-615 in 205/50-15. Either one will give you much better performance than any of the crappy tires available in 215/50-15.

 

well thats funny you said that, caz i am going to order some falkens pretty soon, but they don't make 215/15.....so......i was just going to get the 205-50-15....which i have on my car right now, but with kuhmo 712......but why do you say 96' and pre civic models should use a 50 and 97-00 use 55? i thought 96-00 civics were all the same?

 

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Ewww... the 712 is terrible. You'll love the RT-615, though.

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All the Civics before 1996 came with tires sized 175/70-13 or smaller, so they need the 195/50-15 size. The '97-00 Civics are all the same; they came with 195/55-15 or 185/65-14, which are the same outer diameter, and those need 195/55-15 or 205/50-15.

I didn't say anything about the '96 itself, because they're a mix. The '96 DX and hatchback models came with 175/70-13 and need 195/50-15. All other '96 Civics came with 195/55-15 or 185/65-14 and need 195/55-15 or 205/50-15.

 

i assume with the 96' dx hatchback that includes the cx??? and for what reasons do you rec. those tires sizes??? just to keep the speedo accurate?

 

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Yes.

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All the usual reasons not to use oversized tires for street use - to keep the speedometer and odometer accurate, to avoid rubbing on the fenders and wheel wells, to help your acceleration (oversized tires are like getting taller gears, make your car accelerate slower in each gear), smaller tires are usually less expensive, etc.

 

totally understand, and i haven't really noticed the longer gears yet, kinda caz my damn tranny already sux, but i am picking up an ex in a week but about how much does it throw off your speedo, caz i had a friend in a stock car go 25 right next to me, and we were going the same speed

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by young noob &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">about how much does it throw off your speedo</TD></TR></TABLE>

If you have a '96 Civic CX Hatchback, it came with 175/70-13 tires from the factory. 205/50-15 tires calculate to an outer diameter 1.9 percent larger than 175/70-13, which means that the speedometer and odometer read lower than otherwise by that percentage. (195/50-15 is 0.1 percent larger in diameter than 175/70-13.)

That doesn't necessarily mean that they are both precisely accurate with the stock size and off by exactly that amount with the oversized size. Other variables can affect the accuracy also. For example, the difference in tread depth between a brand new street tire and one that is worn down to the treadwear indicator bars (and ready for replacement) translates to a difference in accuracy of about 2 percent. But the difference in size adds 1.9 percent error to whatever error existed with the stock size tires, all else being equal.

And, again, you can avoid ALL of those problems by simply getting the proper size tires for your car. In your case, that's 195/50-15.

 

oh sweet, so im actually getting better gas mileage than i thought, sweet