Big wheels look good and ride badly, and a lot of drivers only discover the second part after they have lived with them through a winter of patched London roads. The sidewall is the tyre's only suspension, and a bigger rim means a shorter sidewall for the same overall diameter. Go the other way, down a rim size and up a profile, and you get more rubber between the road and the wheel, a noticeably calmer ride, and a tyre that is considerably harder to destroy on a bad edge.
It is not always possible, because the wheel has to clear the brakes and the overall rolling diameter has to stay close to standard or the speedometer starts telling stories. Where a car offers more than one factory wheel size, though, the smaller one is often the better buy for a car that lives on roads like these. It usually costs less to replace too. If your car came with an optional larger wheel, it is worth asking what the standard size was before the next set goes on, particularly if the ride around the Caledonian Road has been wearing thin.
Whether the car is on the drive in King's Cross or a side street in Battle Bridge, the fitting happens there. If you would rather we came to you on York Way at the end of the working day, that is fine too. Steep camber in Caledonian Road? We move a few metres, Pentonville Road or anywhere else. Blocked drive in King's Cross? Open kerb in Battle Bridge? Either works. N1C takes in Regent's Canal and the York Way area, and we work the lot.
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The Euston Road is a near constant queue along the southern edge of King's Cross, York Way carries traffic up toward the developments, and the surfaces around all of it have been dug up and made good more times than anybody has counted. That is a hard environment for a short sidewall and an expensive one for a big alloy. If the car is on the larger of two factory wheel options, the next set of tyres is a good moment to reconsider.
A driver near Battle Bridge moved to the smaller of their car's two factory wheel sizes at the next change and found the ride transformed on patched surfaces.
A car near the Regent's Canal side kept its larger wheels but went to a tyre with a raised rim protector rib, which was the compromise that suited them.
A set changed in a side street off York Way rather than anywhere on the Euston Road, which is not somewhere anybody should be stopping.
Only if the car was offered in that size, the wheel clears the brakes, and the overall rolling diameter stays close to standard. Where those hold, going down a rim size and up a profile is one of the more effective changes you can make to how a car rides.
It will if the overall diameter is kept close to the original, which is the whole point of going up a profile as the rim gets smaller. Changing the diameter significantly is what puts the speedometer out, and we would not do it.
Usually, yes. Tyres in smaller sizes generally cost less, and a taller sidewall is far more tolerant of a pothole, so the wheel underneath is less likely to be damaged as well. On London roads that is not a small consideration.
Yes, and it is a five minute conversation. Tell us the car and what is on it now and we will say whether a different size is genuinely available to you or whether the sensible move is a tyre with a rim protector instead.
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