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Fuel for the fire:
Fact or Fiction? Tire contact patch and air pressure.
Explains why race cars use wide tires.
So - No - the contact patch is not the same with the same pressure and load.
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Saw that. But it was talking about lower pressures and for two motorcycle tires, which are very narrow. I'm wondering how big the disconnect is for square shouldered radials.
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03-12-2013, 06:58 PM
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Those Avons don't look like bike tire sizes to me.
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03-12-2013, 07:17 PM
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This is pretty cool!
(Tire size: 155/55R19)
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I still rather have 155/90 r12/13/14 or 15 |
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03-12-2013, 07:57 PM
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Though the article doesn't list all the "large & narrow" sizes, I wonder if this is related to the upcoming VW XL1 release... The sizes on the VW aren't very tall but they are friggin' narrow! (115/80R15... narrower than my motorcycle tires!)
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The VW XL1 uses Michelins, I think? The fronts are as you say 115/80R15 and the rears are 145/55R16.
VW's of old, and Volvos and Saabs used 155/80/15's for a long time.
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03-12-2013, 10:46 PM
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The VW XL1 uses Michelins, I think? The fronts are as you say 115/80R15 and the rears are 145/55R16.
VW's of old, and Volvos and Saabs used 155/80/15's for a long time.
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Yup, two of my diesel Rabbits did. The third one had the "big" size, which was 175/70R15.
@Frank Lee, your cat cracks me up.
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I thought Rabbits had 13s and GTIs had 14s?
Oh, to be as cute as the cat!
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03-13-2013, 07:24 PM
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Though the article doesn't list all the "large & narrow" sizes, I wonder if this is related to the upcoming VW XL1 release... The sizes on the VW aren't very tall but they are friggin' narrow! (115/80R15... narrower than my motorcycle tires!)
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Actually 115/80 is rather tall, as is any tire 75 form factor and better, gone are the SR days, too bad those were better tires. |
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03-13-2013, 11:19 PM
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Those Avons don't look like bike tire sizes to me.
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03-13-2013, 11:59 PM
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