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Old 09-26-2010, 12:47 PM   #7 (permalink)
Ryland
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I agree that it's hard to judge what kind of improvements you will see in your mileage without a good way to measure the LRR of a tire, but I disagree that LRR have to give you a compromise in life and traction, I currently have Sumitomo HTR T4 tires on my civic, up near the top of the list of LRR tires when I was looking around they have a wear life of 560 and an A B traction and temp rating, they are near the top end of the middle as far as wear life and good as far as traction goes only place that they are lacking is heat dissipation and if you keep them inflated properly that is not much of an issue.
With my old tires I saw a 5mpg to 8mpg drop in mileage compared to these LRR tires, they also have a better wear life, 380 compared to 560.
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