Thread: How much does tire and wheel weight effect MPG?
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Old 07-09-2018, 10:42 AM   #55 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Effic1ent1 View Post
... I was just kidding really. Only on ecomodder's do you take a nice new set of alloy wheels and cover them with cheap black plastic, even if they did cost next to nothing. That being said, no I don't really care about aesthetics and I might still cover them up.
Hahaha! FWIW, I would not cover such rims with cheap plastic. I would sell them and buy crappy rims & good LRR tires!
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