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Re: how tire size affects tire wear
- Subject: Re: how tire size affects tire wear
- From: "Joao T. da Costa" <jcosta@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 10:06:14 -0300
The contact patch is larger--otherwise there would be no advantage to
wider tires.
I don't know whether tire size affects wear, but I would suppose
that, generally speaking, lower profiles tend to go hand in hand with
softer compounds.
OK, flame me.
Joao T. da Costa
Sao Paulo, Brazil
'97 E36/5 318ti
'89 E30 M3
At 8:40 AM -0400 07/06/01, Kevin M. Gregg wrote:
>[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/
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