You will not have any issues with rubbing on the front with 235’s. As Scott states, he’s running 255’s on the front.

Think about these points:

• The front wheels turn. That means that even a relatively “thin” tire (such as a 225 width) must clear the front fender in a lock-to-lock turn since the tire height must clear your front fenders.
• And, that also means that the front fender will accommodate a very wide tire (some members here go as wide as 275mm on the front).
• You don’t need to roll front fenders to accommodate “wide” tires (again, the front wheels turn outside the front fender).
• For your front tire, you only need to consider overall tire diameter, and not tire width.

Let me just offer one additional comment: I run all-square with my winter wheel/tire setup. For this setup, I use the same wheel diameter/width and the same tire size front and rear.

Here is my recommendation based upon the information you provide on your thread:

• Buy a second set of stock wheels (or at least the rears if you can get these by them alone). If you are going all-square, the best way to do this is with 4 wheels that are the same size (height, width, and offset).
• Mount the same size tires on all four corners. If you go 235’s on 17” wheels, mount 235/50-17” all around. If you go with 225’s on 17” wheels, go with 225/55-17” all around.

I should also mention that a 17” wheel allows a greater selection of tire-width on various wheel-widths than you have with 18” or 19” wheels. That is simply because the section height is greater on a 17” wheel, and more forgiving when fitting tire widths than you have with taller wheels.

Hope this isn’t confusing,

Spike
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PS: Please post back to this thread telling us what you decide to do and how you evaluate the results. That helps us learn.

 

Very informative, thank you.

I am 99% sure I will go with 4 stock Nissan "rear" wheel rims all around
mated to 235/50/17 tires.

I will post a few pics once it is done but I expect it to look the same as it does now.

Thanks again...very informative.

 

Picked up a set of stock 17" wheels and tires from fellow board member DavidV
for a smokin' deal (Thanks David!) I will mount them next week and report back...


And a 2nd thanks to David, he cleaned them puppies up so nice, they looked brandy new!