I have a 04 f150 4x2....has anyone tried putting 18's in the front and 20's in the back...or a 20 & 22 combo. I am not sure if i want a leveling kit...and this would help fill the gaps....what do you think. Would i have problems with this set up?

Chad

 

I think it would probably make it look like a stinkbug.

 

yeah I am not sure how it would look...it was just an idea!!!! Thanks.

 

idk....unless your lowering it with a 2/4 drop and a NICE body kit like the roush (not some rice one) and stuff......idk if it will llook good.

 

well I was wanting to keep it the stock height....

 

im not sure about that.....i think that died with the camaros (the REAL ones) and the old 'stangs and hemi cudas and so forth

 

good point...idea has been deleted...thanks!!!!

 

dont let me discourage your idea....thats jus mt 2 cents

if you like it go for it its your truck

im not saying it looked bad on the camaros, 'stangs, and hemi cudas

 

I was back and forth with the idea...

 

Camaros never had bigger rims on the back than on the front...infact I don't think any Mustangs did for that matter.

C5 and C6 (new ones) Corvettes do however run larger wheels on the back than the front. With that said though....F150s arent Corvettes. Run the same size rim and tire all the way around or it will look stupid IMO.

 

It will look like chit. You are taking a truck that already has the rear jacked up close to 2" over the front and adding another 2" to it. So now your rear will sit 4" higher than the front.

You will also loose the ability to rotate tires in any way other than side to side, depending on tire selection you might not be able to do that either.

For the record Corvette's have 18" front & 19" rear so there is only a 1" difference. They did this more for an asthetic reason as the larger rear rims fill the fenderwells better than the 18" rim would.

 

i think they did....but then again i second guess myself on that.....

but when i said that i meant it ALOT of people did it as an aftermarket thing along with the larger tires in the rear.

and your right F-150s arent vettes........this is why i dont think he should do it unless he wants the rear higher and is lowered some with a body kit...supercharger and what not.....to make it fast.

 

His truck would sit 1" higher in the back than stock (considering he already has 18" wheels) if you measure wheel only. You have to take tire size into account and he didn't say what he was looking at so there's no way to know what the actual difference would be.

There are a whole lot of high end sports cars out there that run two different wheel sizes and they all seem to look pretty good.

Have one of the resident photoshop wizards whip you up a concept picture of what it would look like on your truck so you can see for yourself.

 

It may not change the height of the rear of the truck at all if you maintain similar circumferences front to rear. Dont confuse staggered width tires to having larger diameter wheels rearward. Many musclecars, and todays best sports cars run wider tires in the rear on a wider rim but of the same diameter and close circumference to the front. For example, an S-class mercedes runs a 18x8.5 front with a 245/45 tire and a 18x9 rear with a 275/40 tire. Most dissimilar diameter wheel combos I've seen are within 1 inch, say 18 front 19 rear. That makes it easy and athetically pleasing as well as can enhance the stance of the vehicle. When you start getting into a difference of 2 inches or more, I wouldnt expect that to look disproportional.

In terms of whether it would look good on an F150, I believe it would if the truck was lowered with nice body work. It could have real sport appeal and your turn-in and handling would probably be improved. On a stock height 4x2 it would look disproportioned and kinda goofy.

 

OK Lets see if what I learned in first grade about reading, comprehension, and math can get us all on the same page here.

Reading: "has anyone tried putting 18's in the front and 20's in the back...or a 20 & 22 combo."

Comprehension: He is not asking about different width tires he is asking about different diameter wheels and tires. If it were a simple matter of width there would be no question as all you have to do is play with the sidewall size to make everything look right.

Math: Now Lets just say you take a truck that the rear is stock 2" higher than the front. It would work something like this

Front 0 Rear +2
Rim 18 Rim 18
Front 18 Rear 20

Here we still keep the rear 2" higher than the front. Now to my next demonstration

Front 0 Rear +2
Rim 18 Rim 20
Front 18 Rear 22

Now my fingers tell me that 22-18 is 4 so the rear would sit 4" higher than the front except that 1" of the rim would be above the axle and would be absorbed into the wheel well. If you wanted things to look right and kept the sidewall on both the front and rear tires as close to equal as possible. Now you could get around this by running a 60 series front tire and an 45 series rear tire. Bare in mind that on a 275/65/18 tire there is roughly 7" of sidewall on the tire, however on the 275/40/20 there would be only 5" of sidewall which would look a bit out of place.