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tire size vs. rim size
I don't meen to interrupt, but are you guys talking about tires with
different diameters, or similar tires on rims of different sizes?
That never was clear in this thread.
Josh
'85 e-30
At 08:43 AM 6/11/2001 -0400, you wrote:
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>Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 08:42:29 -0400
>From: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: how tire size affects tire wear
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>if you can't see that, i am not explaining...
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>Nicolas Roman
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> >Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 10:24:40 -0400
> >From: [email protected]
> >Subject: Re: how tire size affects tire wear
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> >At 10:06 AM 6/7/01 -0300, Joao T. da Costa wrote:
> >>>The contact patch is larger--otherwise there would be no advantage to
> >>>wider tires.
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> >>Hhmmm... isn't the contact patch of a 17 inch 245 series tire the same as
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> >>the contact patch of a 18 inch 245 series tire?
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> >NO IT IS NOT THE SAME... AN 18" HAS A LARGER CIRCUMFERENCE AND THEREFORE
> >THE CONTACT PATCH WILL BE LARGER IN THE LONGITUDINAL DIRECTION....
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>What? Prove it!
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>If you have two tires, both with equal width, and both on equal width rims,
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>the air pressures are equal, and the weight on that corner of the car is
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>same for both cases, why will a larger circumference make a difference in
>longitudinal contact patch?
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>The size of the contact patch (square inches) will be the same. And, in
>this case, it will be the same shape, too.
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>- -rb
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