Winter Tire sizes
Willow
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Yes it may be atadd premature, but we are looking at winter tires again. Does anyone know what the smallest size we can go to? our tires are 215/65/16.
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you live in canada and don't know what snow tire to use?
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mrbigbluelight wrote:What vehicle are these going on ?
Nissan Xtrail Se -
faster100 wrote:you live in canada and don't know what snow tire to use?
I know which ones to buy I want to save money by downsizing a bit and not sure what i can go down to. -
Do you want to keep the odometer accurate? You could vary the width and ratio and see if you can get cheaper tires. The only thing fixed in your setup is the wheels. I would guess you could go with 205/XX R16 where the XX could be anything from 35-75.
Personally, you should only be saving $40 at most so why not keep them the correct size?There is no genuine justice in any scheme of feeding and coddling the loafer whose only ponderable energies are devoted wholly to reproduction. Nine-tenths of the rights he bellows for are really privileges and he does nothing to deserve them. We not only acquired a vast population of morons, we have inculcated all morons, old or young, with the doctrine that the decent and industrious people of the country are bound to support them for all time.-Menkin -
what's an xtrail?MY HT RIG:
Sherwood p-965
Sherwood sd871 dvd
Rotel 1075 amp x5
LSI15 mains
LsiC center
LSIfx surround backs
Lsi7 side surrounds
SVS pb12/plus2
2 Channel Rig:
nad 1020 Pre-amp
Rotel 1080 stereo amp
Polk sda 2B
kenwood grunt Tuner
realistic lab 450 TT
Signal cable IC -
faster100 wrote:what's an xtrail?
they are not yet avail in the US they have been in Canada for a couples yrs and in europe for even longer.
http://www.nissan.ca/en/vehicles/xtrail/index.html -
jdhdiggs wrote:Do you want to keep the odometer accurate? You could vary the width and ratio and see if you can get cheaper tires. The only thing fixed in your setup is the wheels. I would guess you could go with 205/XX R16 where the XX could be anything from 35-75.
Personally, you should only be saving $40 at most so why not keep them the correct size?
Wouldn't that be keep the speedometre correct ?
On our matrix we went down a couple sizes for our winters. I don't remember what the rule of thumb is. -
Willow wrote:Wouldn't that be keep the speedometre correct ?
On our matrix we went down a couple sizes for our winters. I don't remember what the rule of thumb is.
No rule of thumbs needed: http://www.tiredepot.com/calc.html
First number is the tire width, second is the ratio of sidewall to width, the third is your wheel diameter. If your standard tire is 215, it might be hard to go below 205. You might try 195/70 R16 or 205/70 R16. Both of these won't result in too much odometer descrepencies.There is no genuine justice in any scheme of feeding and coddling the loafer whose only ponderable energies are devoted wholly to reproduction. Nine-tenths of the rights he bellows for are really privileges and he does nothing to deserve them. We not only acquired a vast population of morons, we have inculcated all morons, old or young, with the doctrine that the decent and industrious people of the country are bound to support them for all time.-Menkin -
thanks for the link
