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Re: Tire width

To: <Lancer7676@aol.com>, <toobmany@bigpond.com>, <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Tire width
From: "Mike Gigante" <mikeg@vicnet.net.au>
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 11:53:01 +1000
Reply-to: "Mike Gigante" <mikeg@vicnet.net.au>
Sender: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
The short answer is no. There is a range of actual sizes that a given
manufacturer can call a nominal size.

I can quote one example where a 185/60 is the same as a nominal
175/60 and a 175/60 that is more like a 185/70.

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Lancer7676@aol.com <Lancer7676@aol.com>
To: toobmany@bigpond.com <toobmany@bigpond.com>; spridgets@autox.team.net
<spridgets@autox.team.net>
Date: Saturday, 8 May 1999 20:58
Subject: Re: Tire width


>In a message dated 5/8/99 4:24:56 AM EST, toobmany@bigpond.com writes:
>
><< 165/70 Falken
> FKO7U on Rostyles. >>
>
>Is 165/70 a standard size--the same size no matter which BRAND of tire you
>get?  Or is it like shoe sizes, with each company deciding for itself what
>constitutes a  size 9, size 11, or size 13?  If I want to take Peter's lead
>and get 165/70's on my Rostyles, can I be confident that I will get the
same
>ride with another brand of 165/70's?
>
>--David
>


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