Hi after some help. My daughter has a 2010 1.6 fiesta titanium. We live in the country side and our roads are full of pot holes. She has gone through 4 front tyres and had the alloy straighten twice. Is there any way I can change to steel wheels and bigger tyres. She has 195x45x16 at the moment. Thanks in advance 

Surely an easier solution is drive slower and miss the potholes? If you're busting tyres and buckling alloys then it's only a matter of time before you shear off part of the suspension. Changing to steel wheels just means the weak point will move somewhere else.

If you really want you can fit the 15" steel rims from the poverty spec models. You'll still go through tyres and have to have wheel alignment done though.

Obviously it'll lower the value of your car by quite a bit if you don't keep hold of the originals.

The 2010 Titanium alloys are known to be soft like cheese unfortunately. 

I have a 2011 Titanium 1.6 and when i had my car it had the zetec s alloys on 17'' it was an upgrade when the person before me had from new,i think it was alloys/leather seats etc but people would know on the name of the upgrade on here as i forgot it, something like street pack back then.

Never had an issue with bent alloys and had the car close to 7 years and hit some very bad potholes to the point September had to have to new back tyres as both split for MOT to pass as said its down to potholes and things like that, the alloys ain't got any weights on them as i could see when he balanced them either.

On 12/19/2020 at 7:54 PM, alexp999 said:

The 2010 Titanium alloys are known to be soft like cheese unfortunately. 

Yes, had experience of that myself with the standard 16" alloys on a Ford Direct Titanium with only 6k miles, all 4 were bent. Dealer swapped a set from another low mileage car they had in stock and they were the same.