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pick-up_man 09-27-2009 03:43 PM

Tire Size
 
The previous owners of my car appear to have put the wrong size tire on, is there a way to tell if the speedometer is calibrated correctly to these tires or if its calibrated to stock?

I am considering getting new tires and I want to see if I want to go with the same size tires or the stock size tires.

Paul3637 09-29-2009 11:29 AM

Yes - here is the link
http://www.csgnetwork.com/tiresizescalc.html

When I put new alloy wheels and tires on my 09 Camry LE, I converted from stock 215R6016 to the same size as the SE 215R5517. That calculator program let me know the circumference difference was less than 1%.

pick-up_man 09-29-2009 04:38 PM

I figured it was a difference in circumference of just over and inch, anyone know what difference, if much of any that will have on the speedometer?

Paul3637 09-30-2009 02:00 PM

Impact - Speedometer / Odometer
 

Originally Posted by pick-up_man (Post 24607)
I figured it was a difference in circumference of just over and inch, anyone know what difference, if much of any that will have on the speedometer?

Based on my car's standard tire with a circumference of 82 inches and assuming the new tires increased the circumference by 1 inch:

1/82 = 1.2%

So if your new circumference is 1.2% greater, the impact on your speedometer would depend on your speed and be under by 1.2% - so at 30 mph, you are really going 0.36 mph faster at 60 mph 0.72 mph faster and at 90 it would be about about 1 mph. In 100 miles on the odometer, you would be traveling 101.2 miles.

In other words, difference is negligible.

Hey bro, were you snoozing in Algebra class ? :)

pick-up_man 10-01-2009 03:12 AM


Originally Posted by Paul3637 (Post 24617)
Based on my car's standard tire with a circumference of 82 inches and assuming the new tires increased the circumference by 1 inch:

1/82 = 1.2%

So if your new circumference is 1.2% greater, the impact on your speedometer would depend on your speed and be under by 1.2% - so at 30 mph, you are really going 0.36 mph faster at 60 mph 0.72 mph faster and at 90 it would be about about 1 mph. In 100 miles on the odometer, you would be traveling 101.2 miles.

In other words, difference is negligible.

Hey bro, were you snoozing in Algebra class ? :)

Haha actually I am pretty kick ass at math, i just didnt feel like going through it so i figured someone would and it looks like i was right, thanks for that btw


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