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- From: met@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU (Meteorology General)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
- Subject: Re: Can I install wider tyres than what specified by the auto-maker?
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 13:12:37 +1100
- Organization: University of Melbourne Dept of Meteorology
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- >$|> >If your going from a 195-60-15 to a 205-60-15, the 205 will be taller.
- >$|> >This will affect your speedo. You might try looking at a 205-55-15. They
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- I think we are missing the point here guys. The subject line says WIDER tyres.
- The problem with putting wider tyres on a car is that the set up will then be
- askew. You would really then need to stiffen the suspension as well. Reason;
- a car is set up so for a standard set of recommended tyres the suspension is
- of such a "hardness" that the car "should" slide before it rolls. i.e the
- suspension should be set so that the body roll will induce only so much "bite"
- that before the point of "roll-over" is reached the tyres will give and will
- begin to slide. If you put wider tyres, and hence get more grip, and the
- suspension has not been stiffened, then it is possible that the "bite" will
- continue past the point of no return, and the car will hence roll before it
- slides. Think about it. Finding that optimum point is what it is all about.
- Testimony to this was Carlos Sainz in the 1991 (I think) Rallye Aust, when
- he finished the loose gravel stages and switched to slicks for a short tarmac
- special stage. Unfortunately the Toyota mechanics didnt change the suspension
- settings (for whatever reason) that had been set very "soft" for the marble-like
- West Australian gravel, and Sainz went out, pushed it hard (as is
- his want) and promptly flipped the car onto its roof almost (ALMOST) putting
- himself out of the rallye. The rest is history. So the moral to the tail as I
- see it is more grip, stiffer suspension, or the exercise is pretty much
- useless.
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- Andrew B. Watkins | `To strive, to seek, to find and
- awatkins@mullara.met.unimelb.edu.au | not to yield'
- awatkins@buster.met.unimelb.edu.au | - Lord Tennyson
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