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how tire size affects tire wear
- Subject: how tire size affects tire wear
- From: "Kevin M. Gregg" <kevingregg@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 08:40:31 -0400
[email protected] writes
>
>I used to wear Toyo's Proxess T1s and melt them off in about
>10K, espcially since there 18s.
How does tire size affect tire wear? Does a larger (18 inch, for example)
tire wear faster because it has less total rubber? Is the contact patch of
an 18 inch tire that much different from that of a 17 inch tire? In
talking about tire wear with the service guy at Tate yesterday, he
commented (about my worn 245/40/17 rear tires), "well, they're 17s after all".
Cheers,
Kevin
[email protected] http://members.home.net/kevingregg
1997 BMW M3 Estoril Blue coupe http://members.home.net/kevingregg/m3/
Columbia, MD
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