Hi all just sold my Octy and on Saturday I bought a 2005 Fabia Vrs - I'll get some pics up once I have finished detailing it (8 hours so far!)

I'm looking to swap tyres with a car I'm going to sell, basically the Fabia has crap 'Sunny' tyres and I have a MK1 Focus that is leaving the fleet which has some decent Dunlop tyres on it.

The Focus is on 205/50 R16

The Fabia is on 205/45 R16

Will I be able to swap them round?

Ta!

Yep they should be fine. I'd check with your insurance company first though.

If you ever need to replace a tyre, then you'll have to replace with 205/50/16, unless you get 4 new and go back to 205/45/16

If you have to swap over to the spare, you might get ABS errors while driving as one wheel will be rotating at a different speed to the rest.

Ah cheers, I just replaced the front tyres on the Focus so I think I will swap the Dunlops over to the rear of the Fabia and then buy two new front tyres for the Fabia either Uniroyal or Proxes in 205/50. The rears on the Focus are a bit perished.

Got any good tyre reccomendations for the Fabia?

Edited 8 October, 201213 yr by Craig01

According to a tyre calculator here: http://www.etyres.co...-calculator.htm 50 profile are 20mm (3.38%) bigger in diameter than 45 profile. Tyre places recommend a max of 2.5% change. This will mean your speedo and milometer will be slightly out, although probably the speedo will read more accurately to the true (GPS) speed, as most under-read anyway.

As for tyre choice, there are many threads on here about the subject. Uniroyal Rainsport 2 are normally reconmended by people. I have them and like them. I bought a 2nd pair last week.

Edited 8 October, 201213 yr by Jim H

Ah cheers Jim useful tool that site. I'm hoping as long as they don't rub or anything like that on full lock then it should be fine.