16s with winter tires on gt

[ourlee]

Brian Goodwin is selling 16" Miata wheels for $200. Perfect condition, it's worth a look. Good-winracing.com

 

[NL_CX5]

They are cooper discoverer M+S P235/70R16. It's the stock size of my old escape. The handling is surprisingly good considering the drastic change. The escape was mushy and rolled like crazy with them. Guess it was just the escape itself.

Not ideal in snow being slightly wider but they'll be a hell of a lot better than stock 19s on those nice rims I don't want to smuck against a curb.
I kind of like the beefy look of them for winter

If my research is right, the escape wheel is 16"x7" with 45mm offset. So that pushes the wheel out by 5mm and then the wider tire pushes it out another 5mm. How does that extra 10mm on EACH side affect handling, suspension wear, etc? I was considering the same setup, but after reading some other comments here, now I'm not so sure?