Anyone running 19” wheels?

72bluNblu said
Finding 18" wheels that will work isn't that hard at all as long as you do your homework. It's a heck of a lot less limiting than trying to run 14 or 15" wheels, there are a lot more options out there. ...

Can you define "work" here?
If you mean work in terms of the required dimensions, I agree. If you mean visually...I don't think so. With our cars, anything bigger than 18" can make them look like a horse-drawn carriage or "donk" ... but this is a matter of personal taste and you did manage to find a couple of examples that pull off the look.

That Duster with the 20s...woof. Not for me, thanks.

72bluNblu said
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As for extra weight, it really depends on the rim and tire combination. The 18x10” enkei rpf1’s on the back of my car weigh 18.45 lbs. Now, a 19x10 version of that same wheel weighs 21.3 lbs, which is definitely heavier. The tire weights for similar sized tires are pretty close between the 18 and 19” at least in a 295/35/18 vs a 295/30/19, some of the 18” versions were a pound heavier. But then again a 15x7” Mopar police rim weighs 25 lbs. So it’s relative.

Yes. It definitely does depend on the package! Generally speaking, larger diameter wheel packages will add weight. It's not helpful to compare steel police car wheels to modern aluminum wheels so that comment was pretty silly. My cheap 15x8 wheels (rear) shaved ~2kg per wheel compared with the stock 15x7 Rally wheels, including the mass of the wider rubber.

I've spent most of my driving miles behind the wheel of modded Miatas and the one thing that experience drilled into my head was that unsprung mass is not to be overlooked. Yes, the ~100rwhp Miata needed all the help it could get but so does a car handicapped by the considerable mass of the solid rear axle. Every kg helps.