I am looking to be buying a 91 civic and i just bought new tires about 2 months ago and would like to keep them but they are 16 inch tires. The tires are 225/45/16, what are the dimensions for the rims i would need to put on the civic to keep the same tires, also is it possible to find any with those dimensions in a 4 lug rim? i have looked all over and couldnt find any that are cheap enough so that it would be worth it to keep these tires instead of buying new tires for the civic rims. I know there are alot of questions in this one post but any help is greatly appreciated and also some input on cheap rims in those dimensions would be helpful. Thanks in advance.

 

you already know the rim diameter, now just find out the depth and you're good to go

for example 17x9 = 17 inch diameter, and a depth of 9 inches

 

You'll want to find a wheel in the 16x7 - 16x8 range. Unfortunately, the tires mentioned are (at least) 5% too large for the car. No matter what wheel you get, the tires will be too big.

http://www.1010tires.com/TireSizeCalculator.asp

 

Yes, the tires are definitely too big, and will probably rub in the wheel wells. For 16" wheels on your car, you need 205/40-16 or 195/45-16 tires.

 

Well that sucks now doesn't it! Now I have to go and get new tires or find some rims that someone is selling cheap with some tires that have almost new tread.

 

In the future, you might want to find out what tire size is best BEFORE you actually go out and buy the tires...

 

Well the tires i planned on using were from my current car and were the tires that were meant to be on it, but my car's trans has blown up so i am buying this honda and wanted to use the tires from my current car.

 

Okay, that makes sense. Unfortunately, though, they won't work. Sorry to hear about the trans...

 

Yea but i really dont care that much because i got the car for 400 bucks but then put in another 1200 so i had a $1600 and it still had alot of problems but then it got hit while it was parked and luckily i saw it happen so i got 1900 bucks from the guy so i had a free car and now i can use that money plus the other money i have to buy and work on this new car i will hopefully be buying.