My Audi A6 quattro 1995 currently has tires of the following size:
205-60R15.
The user manual for this car as well as tire rack lists 195-65R15 to
be the factory installed tires.
The rims seem to be original as far as I can tell.

Narrower tires perform better in snow. I am inclined to go with the
factory original equipment.
Can any body comment on the tire size or point me to a website which
lists what tire sizes can be put on a given rim?

Thanks,

Andre

On May 21, 8:29 am, Andre <andre... (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote:
Sounds like the previous owner just did a plus-one sizing on it. If
you go to the Tire Rack site, you can find out which tires will fit
using the stock rims (which is what I assume you have).

Dan D
'04 A4 1.8Tq MT-6
Central NJ USA

On 21 May 2007 05:29:40 -0700, Andre <andrez83 (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote:

While it is true that a narrower tire works best in snow, the
difference between a 205 and a 195 would make little difference.
Although I live in the snow belt (New England), I put the same size
snows on as I do the performance tires simply because even in the
winter time, most of my (your) driving will be on pavement rather than
snow. Remember, this is a Quattro. It will go anywhere with summer
tires; it needs snows, however, to *stop*.


I would stick with the performance formula (205).

Dave (running 19 inch 250s performance and snows)
RS6

On May 21, 10:41 am, Dave LaCourse <dplacou... (AT) pirateaol (DOT) com> wrote:
Thank you Dave and Dan,

I am going to go with the 205/60R15 based on your advice and based on
the fact that the bigger size is listed on the label I found on the
car as one of the supported tire sizes. It is also the size of the
current tires.
I was not sure if this size is fully supported by this car design or
if it was just an update made by the previous owner.

Unfortunately I was not able to find the page on the TireRack website
which advises what tire sizes are supported by a particular rim size.
But I no longer need that information at this time.
As you can tell I am not very well versed in tires and rims

Thank you,
Andre