Re: how tire size affects tire wear

["Joao T. da Costa" <jcosta@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The contact patch is larger--otherwise there would be no advantage to 
wider tires.
I don't know whether tire size affects wear, but I would suppose 
that, generally speaking, lower profiles tend to go hand in hand with 
softer compounds.
OK, flame me.

Joao T. da Costa
Sao Paulo, Brazil
'97 E36/5 318ti
'89 E30 M3


At 8:40 AM -0400 07/06/01, Kevin M. Gregg wrote:
>jmiller@domain.elided writes
>>
>>I used to wear Toyo's Proxess T1s and melt them off in about
>>10K, espcially since there 18s.
>
>How does tire size affect tire wear?  Does a larger (18 inch, for 
>example) tire wear faster because it has less total rubber?  Is the 
>contact patch of an 18 inch tire that much different from that of a 
>17 inch tire?  In talking about tire wear with the service guy at 
>Tate yesterday, he commented (about my worn 245/40/17 rear tires), 
>"well, they're 17s after all".
>
>Cheers,
>
>Kevin
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