How a different rc tire can affect the handling of your RC truck or car.

Are you wanting to improve the handling of your RC truck or car? The rc tire that you choose can be one of the easiest ways to change the handling of your RC truck or car.

It does not matter what type of vehicle you have, changing tires for the conditions can greatly affect the handling.

With the huge selection of tires available trying to decide on the tires to use can be very confusing.

First let us look at the make up of a rc tire.

These tires are made up of three components.

The wheel or rim, foam insert and tire. One of the first things you need to understand is that a rc tire is airless.

The foam insert replaces the need for air.

So, with no air in the tire how are they held on the rim?

The foam insert is placed inside the rc tire and then the tire is glued to the rim. If you need to learn about how to glue rc tires check out the section Gluing Tires.

The exception to this are the bead lock rims that are now on the market.



At the moment bead locks are only available for the larger rc tires used on trucks and truggies. I feel that this will be changing in the near future.

The big downside to bead locks are their cost. On the plus side you can use them many times, just unbolt the tire when you need to and bolt up the new rc tire.

A lot less hassle and mess. You will need to prep the carcass and foam much the same way you do for gluing.

There is more on prepping the rc tire and foam insert in the section on Tire Gluing.

Learn How to Glue Tires Like a Pro.

I guess they are called that because there is air little less drag with a dish over a spoked wheel.

Unless you are trying for some kind of very high speeds I see no difference in performance.

This is more of a style statement than anything else. What a great way to add some flare and personality to your "ride".

There is one option to rc wheels is the off set. As a general rule there is two options here.

That being rc wheels with zero off set and wheels with 1/2 inch off set. There is some variation in off set, but the thing to remember is using a wheel with any kind of off set makes your vehicle wider.

Thus increasing side to side stability. This makes cornering a little more sure footed and decreasing the chances of side roll over.

I like using 1/2 inch offsets on loose, rutted, high grip surfaces. It lessens the worry of a big barrel roll over if you catch a rut in the middle of a corner.



Do keep in mind if you are at a sanctioned race that you stay within width restrictions of your class.

There will be links to the different sanctioning bodies in the racing section, so you can check out all the rules there.


Depending on the type of rc vehicle you have, car, buggy, truggy or monster truck.

It can be very confusing as to what rc tire would best suit your needs. There are many things to consider.

First off would be the surfaces you are going to run on, off road or on road. The next choices can get very confusing.

For both on and off road application there are many things to understand, tire compound, tread design and foam inserts.

I will look into each of these in the sections on road and off road rc tires.



If you were to leave your suspension set at the factory suggested settings, changing tires can make a world of difference in how your vehicle handles.

You will be amazed what a different set of rc tires will do to the handling of your rc "ride". Making the choosing the right rc tire can increase your speed, cornering and climbing ability.

You are unable to accelerate, corner or climb at all. When you try and accelerate up just get a lot of tire spin and little or no forward action or no tire spin and one huge wheelie.

While cornering your "ride" slides out of control or hooks up so hard the you are doing barrel rolls through the corner.

The same goes for rock climbing either a lot of tire spin and go no where or you flip over backwards. All of this can be very hilarious for a short time, but it can also be very hard on equipment.

Breaking parts is no fun and can get very costly. So, I will try to help you solve the mystery of how your rc tire will handle different situations.

Let us look at each of these types of rc tires individually.

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