Hi,

The Plumber has put together an excellent guide to wheels/tyres see here

In the technical guide and as per the Skoda accessories brochure, you can - it seems - purchase 6J 17 ET45 – 205/50 R17 ‘Flash’ Winter Alloys as a dealer supplied accessory.

I can see there are plenty of tyres that match this size - but i can't find any - (yet) that meet or exceed the load rating of 94W for this given size,( most are 93W or below.)

Has anyone found or is running a tyre to match these rims both for size and load? Or is the loading of 94W not applicable?

Thanks

Graham

Edited 13 January, 201016 yr by grahamar

Hi,

The Plumber has put together an excellent guide to wheels/tyres see here

In the technical guide and as per the Skoda accessories brochure, you can - it seems - purchase 6J 17 ET45 – 205/50 R17 ‘Flash’ Winter Alloys as a dealer supplied accessory.

I can see there are plenty of tyres that match this size - but i can't find any - (yet) that meet or exceed the load rating of 94W for this given size,( most are 93W or below.)

Has anyone found or is running a tyre to match these rims both for size and load? Or is the loading of 94W not applicable?

Thanks

Graham

Edited 13 January, 201016 yr by loskie

Hi,

The Plumber has put together an excellent guide to wheels/tyres see here

In the technical guide and as per the Skoda accessories brochure, you can - it seems - purchase 6J 17 ET45 – 205/50 R17 ‘Flash’ Winter Alloys as a dealer supplied accessory.

I can see there are plenty of tyres that match this size - but i can't find any - (yet) that meet or exceed the load rating of 94W for this given size,( most are 93W or below.)

Has anyone found or is running a tyre to match these rims both for size and load? Or is the loading of 94W not applicable?

Thanks

Graham

Hi Graham,

think you could get away with a 93 but use the Car bible link here My link and in the guide, which has a section on calculating load index against vehicle weight.

Regards,

TP

Hi Graham,

think you could get away with a 93 but use the Car bible link here My link and in the guide, which has a section on calculating load index against vehicle weight.

Regards,

TP

Yeah - agree it's only 20kg - but then why did Skoda choose 94W in the first instance.???

Graham

Yeah - agree it's only 20kg - but then why did Skoda choose 94W in the first instance.???

Graham

Hi Graham,

just been doing the number crunching:

Yeti 140 TDI Gross Vehicle Weight = 2075KG

Load Index 93 = 650KG per tyre = 2600KG Max load on 4 tyres.

Deduct 20% safety margin = 2080KG

The same calculation for the 94 = 2144KG

I would have thought Skoda CZ would be aware of the tyre availability for the 205/50 R17, although no good asking SUK they tell you to go to Kwik Fit

Also done a tyre search for the 225/50 R17 and all appear to start at 94 as a minimum irrespective of speed rating, which at W is a vastly over what the old Monster is capable of anyway. My 140 Golf had factory fitted V rated which I think are more appropriate and work better from my own experience.

Regards,

TP

Hi Graham,

just been doing the number crunching:

Yeti 140 TDI Gross Vehicle Weight = 2075KG

Load Index 93 = 650KG per tyre = 2600KG Max load on 4 tyres.

Deduct 20% safety margin = 2080KG

The same calculation for the 94 = 2144KG

I would have thought Skoda CZ would be aware of the tyre availability for the 205/50 R17, although no good asking SUK they tell you to go to Kwik Fit

Also done a tyre search for the 225/50 R17 and all appear to start at 94 as a minimum irrespective of speed rating, which at W is a vastly over what the old Monster is capable of anyway. My 140 Golf had factory fitted V rated which I think are more appropriate and work better from my own experience.

Regards,

TP

Thanks TP,

I was never good at sums so I appreciate the calcs.

I am/was toying with the idea of going with these 17" winter rims and have winter tyres on them, and keep the factory supplied 17" rims for the 7 days of summer we have up here.

Either that or take your route with the 16" steel rims. Got a week or two left to decide as my Monster is parked up waiting for a Ferry right now.

Does anyone in the SMOC have these 6J 17 ET45 – 205/50 R17 ‘Flash’ Winter Alloys on their Monster already?

rgds

Graham

There is an official Skoda list with tyres and rims combinations.

In this list, the winter tyres are listed as 205/50 17 93H M+S and the summer tyres for these rims (7" x17") are 225/50 17 94W

This might be the reason, why there are no 205/50 17 94 tyres.

There is an official Skoda list with tyres and rims combinations.

In this list, the winter tyres are listed as 205/50 17 93H M+S and the summer tyres for these rims (7" x17") are 225/50 17 94W

This might be the reason, why there are no 205/50 17 94 tyres.

thanks a lot for your link very useful.

Our importer SUK stated there was no information available on winter tyres from Skoda and I should speak to the independent tyre fitters Kwik Fit for advice :S

Don't suppose the German importer fancies taking over from SUK; seem to have a better Idea of what their doing.

Regards,

TP

noticed the other day that mytyres also do winter wheel (steel) and tyre packages

Thanks magic62.

This is very helpful, and very much appreciated.

Graham

Well, the germans are very strict on the tyre size, load index and speed index.

Wrong size, wrong load index or wrong speed index and the car can be declared not road legal.

(also every other modification on a car must be tüv approved or the car must be tested individually after the modification. And that is pretty expensive!)

Glad to be able to help you guys!

My selection. URL from Goodyear UK website (hope it works)

http://goodyear.tiremanager.eu/eu_en/popups/detaildata.aspx?view=11

As stated by TP and others, the 17" 225 is a silly rubber for winter. The 16" 215 work out well.

Edited 14 January, 201016 yr by Agerbundsen

My selection. URL from Goodyear UK website (hope it works)

http://goodyear.tiremanager.eu/eu_en/popups/detaildata.aspx?view=11

As stated by TP and others, the 17" 225 is a silly rubber for winter. The 16" 215 work out well.

Yes works fine Agerbundsen many thanks.

appears to mirror information supplied by magic62 from Skoda, even gives a warning that the information is applicable to Germany.

Regards,

TP

I've just sent an e-mail to skoda for more info,they seem to do a 205/50 17inch tyre as an accessorie for a Yeti but no load ratings or make are specified.Will get back to you as soon as I have a reply.

A friend of mine has just ordered some steels and winters for his Ka though 'my tyres'. They are German based so I would presume anything they sell for a particular car may well be legit - the Germans do tend to be pretty strict on things like that.

(Edit for illiteracy)

Edited 14 January, 201016 yr by aerofurb

Hi 110vian,

Hope Skoda don't come back with the "Kwik-Fit" line they gave The Plumber.

As for "mytyres" - yes I have bought from them myself - very good in my opinion.

But you do have to select the tyre you want, they don't match a tyre to a car AFAIK - hence the puzzle, what size and what loading.

Edit: Oh, apologies - and I correct myself - I see that they do ..... here My link Select the "Steel Wheels with Tyres" Link.

I didn't see that before. Interesting!

Don't know if I have German blood, but for me, the correct type of tyre, (speed, load , size etc) is very important.

Thanks to everyone for their inputs/view/info.

Graham

Edited 14 January, 201016 yr by grahamar

"Don't know if I have German blood, but for me, the correct type of tyre, (speed, load , size etc) is very important."

I don't know if that is particularly Germanic, but pure self preservation in my book.