Renault Twingo - Different Tyre Sizes

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Sun 5 Feb 2023 19:41
Renault Twingo - Different Tyre Sizes - Adampr

So, my wife came back from the gym earlier and announced that the Twingo had a flat tyre. "Where is it?" I asked. "On the drive" she told me. "It was making a lot of noise as I drove home". It turns out the tyre pressure warning came on yesterday but she ignored it because the Corsa used to do it all the time for no reason.

Anyway, I went to order a pair of new rears (they were pretty worn, so no harm done really) and had to keep going back out on to the drive and checking sizes again until I finally realised it has different profiles front and back. What's that all about? Is it a RWD thing?

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Sun 5 Feb 2023 19:50
Renault Twingo - Different Tyre Sizes - badbusdriver

Didn't realise they had different sized tyres, but it will be due to being rear engined rather than because it is RWD.

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Sun 5 Feb 2023 20:40
Renault Twingo - Different Tyre Sizes - elekie&a/c doctor
Front engine rear drive , commonly have different size tyres . My BMW E 46 does .
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Sun 5 Feb 2023 20:58
Renault Twingo - Different Tyre Sizes - badbusdriver
Front engine rear drive , commonly have different size tyres . My BMW E 46 does .

Surely that would only be on more powerful versions though?.

On the 2nd gen Twingo, around 55% of the weight is over the rear wheels compared to 40-45% on an average FWD hatchback.

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Sun 5 Feb 2023 21:03
Renault Twingo - Different Tyre Sizes - elekie&a/c doctor
Those on 17 or 18 inch wheels will have different sizes . Smaller diameter wheels are generally the same all round .
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Sun 5 Feb 2023 21:07
Renault Twingo - Different Tyre Sizes - Alby Back
My E Class has different sized tyres front/back.
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