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Old 05-25-2018, 10:33 PM   #1 (permalink)
hat_man
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Oh Deer - '03 Ford Ranger XL
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New tire break in ?

Hello everyone,

I just bought a new set of tires for Oh Deer. I seem to remember hearing not to expect immediate results from new tires. Does anyone know about how much time it may take to see results?

The reason I ask is that I want to track my improvement on this truck closer than I did last time and don't want any "cross contamination" so to speak. The new tires are LLR (the old ones were not) so I'm expecting some improvement, but they are also about 8 pounds lighter each. I think I'm going to see some immediate improvement just from the reduction in rotational mass but I don't want to start the new mods until I am fairly sure I've recorded the improvements from the new LLR tire compound.

Or should I just wait it out until the MPG numbers level off again?

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