Tire Stretching Techniques

[Ian]

So i'm actually posting this for a friend, but i need to know this as well in the near future. He is trying to mount a 225/45/17 on a 17x9, so far to no avail. Are there any tricks to this?

[Giant Robot]

leave the tires in the sun for a couple hours

[Dousan_PG]

yep
depends on tire too some are harder to strectch then others
but the sun technique works great

[Sil Beer S13]

what tire is he using?

Some tires wont stretch for crap.

I have 215/40/17 on a 17 x 9 its yokohama and i have a 225/50/15 on a 15x9 its falken

[infinitexsound]

theres another thread about this in tech section, use the cheetah