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- From: mike@mote.Berkeley.EDU (Mike Friedrich)
- Subject: Re: tire speed ratings
- Message-ID: <1992Sep5.041055.20825@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
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- Organization: University of California at Berkeley
- References: <JEFF.92Sep4104534@dsp.sps.mot.com>
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- Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 04:10:55 GMT
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- In article <JEFF.92Sep4104534@dsp.sps.mot.com> jeff@dsp.sps.mot.com (Jeff Enderwick) writes:
- >
- >Does anyone have a tire speed rating chart handy? How fast/hot is safe for
- >a H rated tire? a V rated tire?
-
- According to that font of automotive knowledge, Consumer Reports:
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- Rating Max. sustained speed
- ------ --------------------
- Q 99 mph
- S 112
- T 118
- U 124
- H 130
- V 130+
- 93V 149
- Z 149+
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- -- Mike Friedrich, UC Berkeley Mechanical Engineering,
- mike@mote.berkeley.edu
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