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Originally Posted by CargoBoatTails
The test that I used was the simple fill up to first stop and then use a full tank of gas from a 0 trip odometer and then fill the same way and then divide the trip odometer by the gallons on the pump. This was on a Nissan Versa 4D 1.8SL CVT(which helped) going from a 225/45/17 (summer tires) to a 195/55/15 (snow tires) and consistently showed a difference of 3mpg exactly, 30 to 27 respectively. Even with a difference of 1.6" on a non CVT car you're only talking a difference of a couple hundred rpm which is negligible.
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So was the difference in tire size factored in (6%)? The other 4% could easily be differences in rolling resistance differences of 2 very different tires