I can put Ford oem rims from a '97 up to an '03 (on my '99F150) and they'll fit without modification?

Colin

 

I have a 98 F150 with 16x10 weld wheels with standard offset and 315x75x16's on my truck. But at one time with the same wheel and same amount of lift I had swamper boggers on it sized at a true 37x13.50x16 with no rubbing. I have a 4 inch susp lift and a 3 inch body lift.

 

Too my knowledge, that won't work due to the difference in bolt pattern.

 

Here are facts.... The 17" rims on the 150 offroad and Lariet are this....



5x5 equals 20 years of GMC production. So take your choice. Minimum 16 inch to clear roters. 4 and a quarter back space so you can steer. Have a nice day and now the door is open. Lots of selection when you know what fits......BEEN THERE DONE THAT

 

Hey guys...I have a '02 F-150 4x4. Just put BFG All Terrain 285/70/R17's on my stock rims. Rubbing really bad. I just got home from the tire shop. I think I got a good deal on these tires for $195 out the door. I just have to find where they are rubbing now.

Not just alittle rub...big, big rub.

 

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Just thought I would report on my recent tire upgrade. I bought Kumho Venture MT tires(285x75r16) and American Racing OutlawII rims (16x8) and after taking a brief look it appears as though I have the same if not more clearence than the stock rims on 265x75 dunlops at's. The rims helped though, being an inch wider and I beleive slightly less backspace. Also I do not have that plastic valance under the bumper so I cant tell if that would rub their (the pastic got broken up so I removed the whole thing) Could have easily gone up another size or two if available/cheap but I got a pretty good deal on my setup. $960 out the door price including the tires, wheels, mounting, lifetime balanceing, lifetime waranty, tax, fees...

 

I have a 2000 F150 4x4 that I have just installed 34/11.50-17 MT Baja's on. Went I got home, I checked the air pressure in each tire. The tire shop had 37 psi in each tire. Looking at the info on the side of the tire, it states a max of 30 psi. Is it o.k. to have over the max psi listed on the side of the tire, or did the tire shop make a mistake? Any advice from anyone in the forum would be greatly appreciated.

 

Hi Bama-Dawg and welcome to the forum

A tire should never have more air pressure in it than the maximum listed on the sidewall. I would guess that the tire shop just put in what they figure an F-150 should normally have in the tires and that they weren't aware that these tires are meant to run lower pressures.
Either that or they put 30 psi in them and your drive home got them hot enough that the pressure built up that much. Did you check them cold or hot?

 

The pressure in these tires were checked after the truck had been sitting a few hours. I decided to check the pressure due to when I went out and looked at them, they apeared to be sitting high in the middle. I did not have a good feeling about the pressure being higher than the sidewall rating, so I backed them down to 28 psi. I wanted to see if I could get more info from others before moving on since I had never ran accross this before. I guess it could be a good lesson for not assuming everything is right just because a business that specializes in something performs the work. Thanks for the post.

 

I was in a doctors office the other day that had a television that every few minutes would have some kind of Q&A on it. One thing it asked was who determines the proper tire inflations pressure, the car manufacturer, the tire manufacturer, or something else(I forgot). I was thinking thats easy its the tire manufacturer but it wasnt; they said the inflation is set by the car manufacturer, and indicated in the door panel. I am thinking how crazy that is, what if you replace your tires with ones that have different specs than o.e.? And isnt that what they determined from the explorer roll over problem - that ford (not firestone) was under inflating the tires so the ride would be more soft? I have seen the same size tires in a wide variety of pressures, like one brand rated 35psi and the same size/type of tire in another brand might be 65psi. Am I crazy here or does this make sense?

 

This goes out to all the 2wd F150 owners. I recently got some 285-75-16 Bridgestone Dueler M/T's and they fit with absolutely no rubbing whatsoever, I did not have to trim a single thing. I mounted them on a set of chromed alloy wheels I got off of ebay(which look great btw). The tires are short for a 285-75 tire, which only measure about 31.8"s or so. But, the tires give the truck a very nice stance(for a 2wd) and look very aggressive and fill up the wheel wells nicely, I'll have to get some pics up of mine purdy soon. I can turn the wheel all the way and I still have a good inch left from hitting the frame rails. I think I came out very well, $340 shipped for the chrome rims off of ebay, I got the tires for free from my neighbor, they are used but still have about 10K left in em, and I know the guy that owns the tire shop so mounting and balancing was only $20, plus they mounted them on the truck for me. When the tires completely wear out I plan on a 3" body lift and a 1 1/2" leveling spacer in the front, then I can mount some pro comp or BFG 285s, which actually measure about 32.9"s.

 

Ok, i know this has been mentioned probaly 100 times in this thread but i didnt want to read all 10 pgs of posts. Im buying an 01 150 4x4 off road, they come with 16in rims correct? i can put 285/75/r16 with no rubbing correct. If i go with a bit shorter tire can i go wider on the stock 16x8in rims? i would consider 285 pushing it on a 8in rim but with the side wall im really not sure. I have alot to learn yet
thanks
-Matt

 

Okay, my son wants larger tires on the stock rims. I would like to add new rims and tires, however, the truck is now just used for school. I want to add the largest tires on myF1504x41999XLT that will work without any adjustments or tires hitting fenders or frames. I now have 2657516's. What tire can I go to without any mod's?

 

This is I guess for both wrongwrench and f150guy. I have a 99 f150 4x4, the stock rim size for alloy's or whatever theyr called is 16x7. A 285x75r16 would typically be the largest you can fit on the stock rims without changing anything. The catch is that every tire manufactures specs are slightly different. For example a 285x75 tire I have seen vary in hieght from manufactures as much as 32.5-33.1". I put on Khumo MT's in the 285x75x16 size but I upped from my stock rims to aluminum 16x8's. Some 285's will rub on stock rims and others wont. The only way to find out is to read all the pages and see if anyone has commented on the exact tire your going to use. Even then as springs were they sag over time and clearences might be less.

If you absolutely dont want any rubbing and dont want to spend $ on new rims you can get 255/85's to get a taller tire than stock or 265/75's to get a slightly taller and slightly wider than stock. Any bigger and you 'might' start runing into clearence issues on stock rims (plus 285's on 7" rims is over max recomendation - but they generally will be fine as long as you dont mind the ballon look).

P.S. Alot of people get confused so I want to clarify everythign I said above is for the 4x4 trucks, 2wd generaly has a smaller max tire size capability.