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waynep
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9th Jan 05 at 21:43   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

i have 16" alloys with 195/45/16 just wondering if i could fit 205/40/16 ? or somthing else along those lines reason being i can get them cheaper.. so will it affect anything ie handling etc?
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would of expected them to be 195/40/16?

but yes you can fit them, they will have a larger rolling radius thus the speedo will be out further

[Edited on 09-01-2005 by Greg_M]
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negativly or positively out ??

ie if im doing 50 will my speedo show 53 or 48 ?
Greg_M
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it will show slower than your going but not buy much i dont think.please someone else reply

[Edited on 09-01-2005 by Greg_M]
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will be roughly the same size, as u will be going wider tyre, but lower profile.
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there will be little difference , as the actual size from top to bottom will be very little difference due to lower profile tyres.

they allow 10% anyhow do the police so i would not worry about it
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quote:
Originally posted by corsa-crazy
negativly or positively out ??
ie if im doing 50 will my speedo show 53 or 48 ?
You'll be travelling faster for the same reading but the reading is wrong anyway. If anything it just lessens the margin of error that the speedo has. You'd have to try very hard to make the speedo under-read.

 
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