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Old 07-21-2020, 02:17 PM   #3 (permalink)
Andyinchville1
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Originally Posted by samwichse View Post
I would stick with LRR over larger diameter.
Yes, I'm kinda leaning that way myself but I recently read somewhere that it takes a 10% decrease in rolling resistance to increase fuel mileage 1 percent...

If that's true , I'm wondering how much less rolling resistance a LRR tire has over a normal Tire because the height difference alone is about 3 % which should help with highway fuel mileage .... so I'm wondering how many more percent fuel mileage would increase with a 3% change in tire diameter?

It would be interesting if somebody did real world tests of MPGs with different tires ...
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