I know Joe , my point is when they are pulled on to a 7" wide wheel they are not 27 inches tall , they are 26 1/4. also my point is that the dude is going to criticize a wide tire on a wide wheel with a short sidewall but defend a narrow tire on a wide wheel. had this been my thread about using a 205/75 on a 7" wide wheel , he would be telling me it will never work and how dangerous it is. it's all about the ego
If you started a thread on a 205/75/15 on a 7" wheel the only thing I would tell you is that the tire is too darn tall to make good use of on an A-body, same thing I told you anyway. And they are both narrow tires on wide wheels, 195's and 205's are both skinny little tires, yours just have enough sidewall to make up for being mounted on a 7" rim, the OP's do not have enough sidewall to make up for an 8" rim.
Your combination is not unsafe, because mounting a 205/75/15 on a 15x7" is within most manufacturer's specs. For example...
I criticized the OP's tire combination because a 195/50/15 mounted on a 15x8 is
nowhere near the manufacturer's specs, that's outside the spec by a full 1" and the rim is wider than the section width of the tire...
And yes, that is getting to the point where it could be dangerous.
Why do I bother? Because I hate seeing old iron wrapped around telephone poles because people don't understand why tire manufacturers list recommended specs. It's not about ego, because more often then not when I point out that someone is doing something dumb with their tire and rim combination I get flamed, much like you're doing now, because no doubt someone, somewhere, ran that combination "back in the day" and "didn't die", like the fact that one person got lucky makes it ok. If I was worried about my ego, I wouldn't say crap.
