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what's best way to determine 'wheel size'? 200 1986

posted by  tjl on  Tue May 13 11:18 CST 2003
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My 1982 owner's manual lists 185R14 for non-turbo wagons (which is about equivalent to 185/82R14). The car came with that size tires when I bought it used; they had a load rating of 91. When I replaced the tires, I used 195/75R14 with a load rating of 92 since 185R14 was pretty much non-existent. 185/70R14 is significantly smaller and has a significantly lower load rating (although it is listed as the tire size for the sedan). I'd guess that the larger size was specified for wagons because they expected people to put more stuff in wagons than in sedans.






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