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Old 12-09-2009, 05:06 PM   #5 (permalink)
NeilBlanchard
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If my memory serves me, when I added my smooth wheel covers to the steel wheel on my xA the improvement was ~5-6% -- pretty substantial. Every car is different, I'm sure -- the xA has huge wheel openings...

A tangential benefit of full wheel covers is it is less likely that you will get snow jammed into the rim which throws things seriously out of balance! Rolling resistance of a bouncing wheel cannot be good...
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