chromedog
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im running 16 x 7 with a 225 55 yokahama avs... the reason most people go 17 is you can get the front past the upper ball joint without grinding the b.j.cup. this lets you go quite a bit wider on the front
Big brakes may be nice, but if you think about it, if you're really skilled at driving and paying attention, they're not necessary. Been driving 18 wheelers for 30 years now and have yet to hit something that could stop faster than me. It's all about paying attention to what the other guy is doing and driving defensively. I can follow you and tell you what you're going to do before you do it.
You don't live in Los Angeles do you?
I'm not saying you are wrong. I'm saying that being defensive has its limits when you are going with traffic at 75 in the middle of six lanes of traffic and somebody ten car lengths in front of you gets spun out by somebody not paying attention changing lanes, causing spinning car to flip and hitting car to spin into traffic collecting three lanes. And driving a car that is hard pressed to stop in 200 feet from 60mph is nuts considering everything else down here stops in roughly half of that.
I've seen it three times in the five years I've been here, and got lucky I was able to drive around it all three. I'll take all the help I can get. There's only so much heads up driving can do for you. "Defensable space" is a luxuary you don't get here.
You "escaped" those three times due to either your skills or just plain dumb luck.
I dissagree 100%. You dont know the ratio of asian drivers to non asian drivers.there is a big difference.No I don't, but have driven in nearly every other major city in the U.S. and believe me, L.A doesn't have a lock on dumb drivers.