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Old 04-19-2015, 09:30 PM   #20 (permalink)
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Just gotta say I love these type threads that send me down a rabbit hole of knowledge.


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Originally Posted by P-hack View Post
True, just pointing out that figure you used does not include wear. And I don't think wear is what is in question here (tires don't wear much in one mile ordinarily, nobody is arguing that tires don't wear)
Nobody is arguing that tire wear doesn't effect revs per mile but they disagree that other things can as well. The link I posted earlier is concerning semi truck tires and it is from a tire manufacturer so I guess that could be a reason to not to believe their findings.

Here is an excerpt from the Report of the 46th National Conference on Weights and Measures 1961 which can be read free here





Keep in mind that this was published over half a century ago regarding variations in odometer readings and was not a specific study on tire revolutions. But the fact stands that their findings indicated that tire revolutions will vary by factors other than only tread wear.
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