Upsizing the tires on Sorento

[sorento7]

I would like to put a larger tire on my 2005 sorento maybe 265-70-16, the orginals are 245-70-16.

Does anyone have any thoughts negative or positive.
Thanks

[sorento7]

[quote=sorento7;212277]I would like to put a larger tire on my 2005 sorento maybe 265-70-16, the orginals are 245-70-16.Will the antilock brakes be affected?

Does anyone have any thoughts negative or positive.
Thanks

[04SorentoLX]

[quote=sorento7;212594]

Originally Posted by sorento7

I would like to put a larger tire on my 2005 sorento maybe 265-70-16, the orginals are 245-70-16.Will the antilock brakes be affected?

Does anyone have any thoughts negative or positive.
Thanks

Thoughts yes. If you stay with the general same overall OD tire size. The 265 is not. Then the ABS and speedo calibration will not be effected. If you go nutz the added OD and size will throw the ABS/speedo off its program. And no telling what it might or might never do then. I myself am looking into just what a plus one size would be for the OEM 245/70-16 tire. Since I live in SC and we have little worry about snow. I was thinking about going to a more street tire like tire. Wider and such for more contact patch. But the oddball size KIA uses does not translate over to a 65/60 seris tire size well. I have not found one yet that is that.

If you are familiar with the old pre metric tire sizes then this might help drive th point home. These are just rough VERY rough idea of sizes and there differences.

245MM=@29 inch tire
265MM=@32 inch tire

So it would be like going in the old days from a OEM 29 truck tire up to a 32. onlt thing is back then we had no computors and very tight program designs on things. So the worse back then was the tire hit the fender well or shock or leaf spring. And you had to buy a speedo correction adpter or a new nylon higher or lower tooothed tail shaft speedo gear for your trans to get it close or dead on many times. Back then the gears were white and green and red and blue and yellow. Depends on what vech the common trans was in then. A white gear out of your Turbo 350 trans C10 chevy pickup might get corrected for tire change and or gearing well by the blue gear in a like Turbo 350 trans stock Impala. These days it is NOT that simple at all.

[pistnbroke]

The ABS will not be affected if you fit the same size tyre on all 4 wheels ( it copes with new and worn tyres on the same axle/front rear ) but the speedo will be affected...if the tyres are wider and have a larger rolling radius you will be going faster than the speedo says.

[TEXKIATECH]

wider tires will not affect any thing but clearence issues why woyuld the tire move faster because it is wider you are confused with height not width

[sorento7]

So you are saying I should stick with the factor size tires, it just seems the truck would look better with more tire taking the wheels wells. The tire overall width is 29.6 ''for the 245-70-16 and 30.7'' for the 265-70-16. The width is only .6'' wider for the larger tire. So you think the abs will be ok just the speedo with be affected. I can live with that. The Toyo Proxes s/T is the tire I am looking at.

Thanks for all your ideas.

[crash_lucky13]

no, i have the 265/75R16 procomp all terrrains on my wife's sorento.. i will say that is the LARGEST you can fit without rubbing... there is NO rubbing on ours though

[sorento7]

did the abs malfunction or the speedometer be off?

[TEXKIATECH]

if you are staying with the same height xxx-70-xx then you will be fine even upsozing them alittle will not mess anything up aslong as you dont go crazy

[ron1004]

Originally Posted by TEXKIATECH

if you are staying with the same height xxx-70-xx then you will be fine even upsozing them alittle will not mess anything up aslong as you dont go crazy

That '70' is not a specific height but a factor of the width, so the width and that number are used to calculate the overall diameter of the wheel.