Anybody have any experience with putting larger tires on a 98 era Forester? I want to gain some clearance without wrecking my t-case or something.

Slighly oversized tires shouldn't do anything to your tranny.

Impreza's and Foresters are the same platform. Many a Impreza

and Forester has had larger tires put on it.

 

How big of tires were you thinking?

Slighly oversized tires shouldn't do anything to your tranny.

Impreza's and Foresters are the same platform. Many a Impreza

and Forester has had larger tires put on it.

 

How big of tires were you thinking?

I recently replaced all four of mine ('99 Forester) with a slightly larger tire. This, as I was insistant about getting white letter tires. No problem whatsoever. I do recomend you always run four identical tires on these all wheel drive cars.

John

Anybody have any experience with putting larger tires on a 98 era Forester? I want to gain some clearance without wrecking my t-case or something.

You can't go any bigger in diamter than 215/65-16, or 215/70-15, or 205/75-15, which are all about the same size. Those tires will gain you 11mm of ground clearance, which I definitely noticed. The rear strut spring base prevents you from mounting a larger tire.

 

If you have a 5 speed, you'll lose a bit of slow speed grunt though, due to the change in gear ratio.