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Taller Tires or 10mm makes a difference 200 1984

posted by  B.C. on  Tue Mar 15 10:08 CST 2011
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Use the tire size comparison site and compare the stock size 185/70-R14 with the size you bought AND with 195/75-R14.

The metric to watch is tire revolutions per mile. You should find that changing the diameter one size up (185 vs 195) while reducing the aspect ratio one size down (70 vs 75) provides a very small difference in revs per mile.

With the 195/70-R14 size the car is traveling faster than the speedo indicates, a very small amount but on the highway it will trip the radar used by trooper needing just one more ticket for the month. Been there done that.

Good Luck,

Bob

:>)






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