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Tire sizes & their corresponding outside diameter

Tire sizes & their corresponding outside diameter

From gti-vr6-ownerdev.tivoli Sun Feb 22 21:14 CST 1998
From: Tom and Teecy Matthews <tmmatthewsworldnet.att>
To: gti-vr6dev.tivoli
Subject: Tire sizes
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 22:06:28 -0500
 
I ran this through one of the many tire size calculators while shopping
for wheels and I thought this would save some time for others...

(Acceptable % difference is usually +/- 3%)

         Specification  Sidewall  Radius  Diameter  Circumference
Revs/Mile  Difference
         205/50-15         4.0in  11.5in    23.1in         72.5in
874        0.0%
         215/45-15         3.8in  11.3in    22.6in         71.1in
892       -2.0%
         205/45-16         3.6in  11.6in    23.3in         73.1in
867        0.8%
         215/40-16         3.4in  11.4in    22.8in         71.5in
886       -1.3%
         225/40-16         3.5in  11.5in    23.1in         72.5in
874        0.1%
         205/40-17         3.2in  11.7in    23.5in         73.7in
860        1.7%
         215/40-17         3.4in  11.9in    23.8in         74.7in
848        3.0%
         225/35-17         3.1in  11.6in    23.2in         72.9in
869        0.6%

I ran these through the Tire Rack size search and each of these sizes is
available in at least one tire.

Enjoy!

Tom M. Matthews
tmmatthewsworldnet.att
'95 GTI VR6 El Nino Edition (Spanish for "The Nino"!)
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