The winter has gone, the silver summer tires are pompous on the axles … And every time I wonder why I am doing the 18″ tyres. In winter there are beautiful 16″ aluminium rims with 205 tires on it. The car drives with it agile, despite ambitious sports suspension pleasantly suspension, accelerates potently and you are still rewarded with a comparatively low consumption. If the chic 18″ summer flaps are pulled up with 225 tires, you pay for this with a carrier acceleration Verh old, lower Vmax, a 1:1 transfer from roadway to spine in poor roads, a higher decibel background in the interior and a noticeably higher fuel consumption (approx. +0.3 – 0.5 l / 100 km). Only the curve driving behaviour is better with the 225, but you don’t need 18″. Ok, the optical factor plays a certain role of course. The 18″ers are more quickly blurred with careless driving and don’t decorate the car anymore … Even worse i The second car, which gets up in the winter 16″ 205er and in the summer 17″ 235er. He drives in the summer still noticeably carrier. Somehow I am looking forward to the next winter tire season again … (thought at the beginning of the summer tire season) Anyone who would like to raise the topic here can now do so.