20's or 22's for Escalade

[Tamcphail89]

I have a 2004 Escalade with 22's on it right now. I'm thinking of going down to some 20's, probably factory take offs. My thought process is that with 20's i can get a little more durable tire and maybe a little smoother ride?

I currently have 305/40/22's and if i go down to 20's, i wanna get 305/50/20's to stay the same width and slightly taller to fill out the wheel gap. I do plan on lowering it soon, but 2/3 is the max i'll be going.

If i get factory 20's, would it be possible to put any bit of a spacer on to push the wheels out just a little? I like an aggressive/street stance, with more of a mild a/t tire vs the performance tires.

What do you guys think of my idea?

Kinda the idea in my head

https://www.customwheeloffset.com/w...aggressive-3-5-lowered-on-springs-custom-rims

 

[adventurenali92]

In my opinion wheels that stick out of the wells are a major pain. Constantly throwing crap up the sides of the truck... and I don’t care for the way they look sticking out either. But just my opinion. As to wheel size a 20 inch wheel looks perfect on our generation trucks, and there’s a ton of good tire choices out there for a 20 inch wheel. I put 20s on last year on my 2006 and love it. I had assumed it was gonna ride like crap but the stock recommended 275/55/R20 tire size wasn’t bad at all. When the used tires I picked up ran out of tread I shopped around craigslist and scored a pretty awesome deal on 275/60/R20 nitto dura grapplers and threw them on my 20s. And the ride is even better than before! Plenty of sidewall to absorb the bumps and the dura grapplers are pretty wide so it corners pretty well. And they fit on my truck with zero change in suspension with room to spare. Ill throw up a pic from a few weeks ago of my truck on the original 20s I had which were the chrome 8 spoke wheels that came on the 2007 body style Denali and I think the look was awesome. I just scored a set of 2015 Denali 20s that were take offs for dirt cheap so I just swapped wheels, but I’ll put a pic of those up too so you can see what they look like. I think the wheel options from the GMT900 trucks and from the latest K2XX gen trucks look really good on our generation! Here’s a shot of my chrome wheels:


And the new weeks I just got yesterday:

 

[Tamcphail89]

Those new ones look really nice man! I'm partial to the 2015+ silverado 20's...would just need a new center cap.

This is mine now

 

[Tamcphail89]

 

[Tamcphail89]

Thinking about getting these for a grand. New nitto 420s, 305/40/22

 

[adventurenali92]

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Thanks man! Looks good as is but I think 20s look better! Another member here has a 2005 Esky in Bermuda blue that just did the same wheels as mine and I’m in love with his truck. Haha. Anyways, yeah the new silvy 20s look really good. Are you talking the wide 5 spoke wheels? Like these:


Cuz those would look really clean on your truck! Or were you thinking the other style?

 

[adventurenali92]

View attachment 205879 Thinking about getting these for a grand. New nitto 420s, 305/40/22

Those snowflake wheels look good. I like that finish a lot. But I don’t think they are OEM, as I haven’t seen that finish in OEM. It might be a reproduction wheel, if you go look at them, look on the inside of the wheel for a part number, if they are in fact OEM they’ll have a JLL stamp somewhere on them and a 3 digit GM number. After market repo will have a longer part number. Not a big deal with a reproduction wheel. But when it comes time to replace tires, tires are expensive for 22s, something to consider also.

 

[Tamcphail89]

These are what I had in mind

 

[adventurenali92]

View attachment 205881 View attachment 205882 These are what I had in mind

Ahh ok. I like both but I think the top ones would go better on your truck. And it’s easier to go Center Caps with caddy logos for those to put on so you don’t have Chevy bow ties lol.

 

[Tamcphail89]

snagged these today with new tires for a grand