As I need to eventually fit new wheels to my NA (because the current are crooked AF), I would like to know what size tires you recommend for 15x7 wheels.

29 Sep 2019

These are the wheels I want to get (except in Bronze)… they are Japan Racing JR3s and the reason I chose these is because:

1; they’re cheap (€110 per wheel)
2; they’re local (Dutch made)
3; they’re commonly used in the Dutch car community (even outside of MX5s, there’s someone on my campus who has JR3s on his Civic)
4; they’re TE37 rip-offs, so they’re bound to look good (as Metalluis16 will confirm… I do like TE37s…)

As of now I have bigger issues to fix (rust, star in windshield in driver’s view, broken left taillight gasket, vacuum leak, radiator fan, roof), so it’s not something I plan on fixing this year (yay, low income life with an NA MX5), especially considering my tires are still in really good shape. But it is something I’ll need to fic eventually and I’m not sure the 195s I have now are going to fit.

Side note, there are other JR wheels I thought of getting:

These are JR19s. Thing is though; these are 15x8… so they’re even bigger. Plus the wheels them self are more expensive than the JR3s (€125 per wheel) and I’ll probably need to buy arch flares if I want these. The one in the pic are probably even bigger that 15x8, though, as they’re also available as 15x10,5.

Anyway… all the rambling out of the way. Simple question; what size tires (in advance) do you recommend for a set of 15x7 wheels for my ‘92 MX5? Not to forget, a tire that’s not too expensive at any size.