I've got a chance to get an amazing deal on a set of lightly used snow tires. But they are narrower than stock. These will see tons of snow use, so I can accept the reduced dry traction. I used one of the calculators on the web and found out that stock circumference is 80.1", and with 195 it's 78.5" -- 2% difference. Will they fit on the OEM 15 x 6.5" wheels? Anyone run this size?

UPDATE -- called my local tire shop first thing this morning, they confirmed that the tires will fit. My speedo will be off 2%, but totally worth it.
UPDATE 2 -- looks like the load rating of the 195 tires is only 91, and SE comes with 94 (but gxe 93).

 

your banned for bringin up winter....

 

Hey, when else can you drift the car without wearing the tires? Or parallel park by pulling the e-brake and doing a 180 (not a maxima, but you get the idea http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Au712Hzj3Y -- maybe I'll post my own video this winter)

 

and hey, when else does the max take 10 minutes to warm up and a half hour for the gears to start moving smoothly. gotta love it, cold, short days, cant go outside, etc., etc. i have'nt even had my vacation yet.

 

thats nothing imagine buying your first turbo diesel in the middle of winter and going THROUGH THE WHOLE winter with bad glow plugs and not even knowing about. True story happened to me, do you have any idea how many times i was left stranded or had to get the car towed or had to spend 25-60+min jumping the car so it would start??? ILL TAKE THAT ANY DAY!

 

load range 91 = 1356 lbs
load range 93 = 1433 lbs
load range 94 = 1477 lbs

 

will work perfectly fine.

 

Uh you drift better w/o the snow tires. I doubt you wanna parallel park in the snow with ebrake unless there's no curb. That video isn't in the snow or of a Maxima -> highly irrelevant. Conclusion: snow sucks.

 

^ What he said. My 16's had 205's on them when I got the car, and 195 isn't exactly pushing it.

 

winter is awesome..

 

I do it all the time, with a curb. Just gotta line it up right and know your car well. Best to learn without a curb though.