Wheel & Tire Selection | Winnebago Revel

Posted By Jeff Paul Givens on Sep 18, 2022

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Wheel selection is personal. I went with the stock steel wheels because I like the tough, simple look and the 16” diameter. The smaller wheel diameter allows for a taller tire that’s somewhat better off-road. The problem is the stock wheels come with pedestrian tires. Tire selection is personal. I went with BFG K02’s for a couple reasons. First, it seems like every time a spotted a tire I really respected it turned out to be a K02 attached to a seriously capable rig. Second, after reading way too many reviews, I concluded it was a well-mannered tire on the road where it would do most of its work. Then I decided to go bigger. Tire size is easy: go as big as you can. This is a huge van that deserves the largest tires you can give it. I was only able to give mine 1.2” in extra diameter and .7” in extra width because that’s all that will fit without lifting the van and/or modifying wheel wells. On the stock wheel (16 x 6.5) this was 265/16R16’s. On the upgraded wheels you can get the same diameter and width with 265/70R17’s. These were installed on the way home from picking up the Revel. The new tires are 2000% grippier on rock, mud, sand or anything else. (I couldn’t find any scientific studies to back up that 2000% gain so I went with my personal conservative estimate…) And they look good! Also, these tires fit in the spare tire rack without modifying the rack. Tight? Yes. A plug for Discount Tires: "The book” at Discount Tire shows the minimum wheel diameter for these tires to be 6.5”. Some places (all others?) have a 7” minimum. Discount Tires also gave me $50 each trade in on the old pedestrian tires.

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Mod Specifications

Mod Category

Wheels & Tires

Total Time

A few hours

Size

Mini Mod

Difficulty

Easy

Total Cost

RV Details

Type of RV

Class B

Make

Winnebago

Series

Revel

Model

Year

2018

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