Ride comfort

[Dantebloom]

Hi I own a 2015 f sport and love the car but one decrepency is the ride comfort, iv noticed it to have a very hard ride that can feel everything as well as very very noisey in the back with road Tyre noise, it has 18 inch Bridgestone tyers atm but also though of buying some nice 17 inch after markets and downsizing and changing to a softer more noise focused tyre, anyone got experience with f sport switching from 18 down to 17 and how it effected the ride comfort 

 

thanks 

[Mr_Groundhog]

But I guess your suspension would stay just as stiff even with the 17" wheels, no?

[Randomizer]

That was the reason I chose the base model instead after test driving both F-Sport and normal Executive trims. The F-Sport was just too harsh.

[Rxv667]

I have a Premier model which has 18” wheels. I bought a set of 17” rims and to me it’s improved the ride 50%. It might be different for others but for me it’s made a huge improvement.  
 

 

[Las Palmas]

Rubber is softer than metal.

More rubber = softer ride.

[Rabbers]

I had 18” tyres on two IS300h’s and was sceptical about 17” ones supposedly giving a gentler ride until I experienced them on an IS I had as a courtesy car, the difference being quite noticeable.  However, the downside was a reduced feeling of stability at higher speeds, for example on long motorway curves and fast bends, and fast winding roads in general.  The choice really boils down to what your main priorities are.