Tires: Tire size difference, r15 tires, tirerack com

Question
What is the difference between P195/65 R15 tires and P215/65 R15 tires?  Can i safely put the P195 tires on a car that suggests the P215 tires?

Answer
Kerri,

What you are considering is going down in load carrying capacity and that increases the risk of a load related tire failure, which sometimes has tragic results.  

Do not go there.

But Tire Rack did such a good job of answering your first question, there wasn't any point in my trying to write up something - and it is here:

http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tiretech/techpage.jsp?techid=46