actual miles driven with bigger tires?
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actual miles driven with bigger tires?
Hello all,
Late last year I went with bigger tires on my 01-150 4x Lariat. I had the stock GY Wrangler and replaced them with the BFG 285's.
Of course since then my mileage has been off.
My question is what is the formula to see what my "actual miles" is. For example, if I reset my trip odometer when filling up and 5 days later I get gas and the odometer then reads 270 miles, how do I determine the true mileage?
Thanks,
David
Late last year I went with bigger tires on my 01-150 4x Lariat. I had the stock GY Wrangler and replaced them with the BFG 285's.
Of course since then my mileage has been off.
My question is what is the formula to see what my "actual miles" is. For example, if I reset my trip odometer when filling up and 5 days later I get gas and the odometer then reads 270 miles, how do I determine the true mileage?
Thanks,
David
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Originally posted by powerstroke73
Find the percentage difference in overall height and then add that percentage to your shown mileage to get actual. So if you increase tire height by 8% and you travel 270 miles then you've actually gone 291.6mi.
Find the percentage difference in overall height and then add that percentage to your shown mileage to get actual. So if you increase tire height by 8% and you travel 270 miles then you've actually gone 291.6mi.
I've checked the GY web site and they do not list the overall height of the tire on the web site.
Does anyone here by chance have the height of the GY tire?
Furthermore I jst checked the BFG site and the data is missing there as well. So I would need the height of those tires as well.
Thanks,
David
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The sizes for those brands are on
http://www.tirerack.com/
an advertiser of this site.
David, I guess you also know you're speeding.
http://www.tirerack.com/
an advertiser of this site.
David, I guess you also know you're speeding.
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Originally posted by Raoul
The sizes for those brands are on
http://www.tirerack.com/
an advertiser of this site.
David, I guess you also know you're speeding.
The sizes for those brands are on
http://www.tirerack.com/
an advertiser of this site.
David, I guess you also know you're speeding.