Going to a smaller tire.

cornick · **Posted:** Fri May 16, 2008 6:31 am

So how bad is it if I go down in tire size?

Stock the 05 comes with 265/70/16, 30.6" (I believe) tires. A guy down the street has some 245/75/16....about 10 of them. I was thinking about picking up 5 of them and running street tires. These equate to 30.5".

I've gone up 2" in tire size and it changed my speedo, I would imagine going down .1" will affect my speedo by minimal. Is there anything else I should look into?

XterraXtian · **Posted:** Fri May 16, 2008 10:09 am

cornick wrote:

Is there anything else I should look into?

a honda civic

:wink:

just kidding!!! are you getting bad gas mileage on your current tires?

cornick · **Posted:** Fri May 16, 2008 10:30 am

About 12mpg. I use a gallon a day for work.

MtDewMike · **Posted:** Fri May 16, 2008 12:54 pm

Wow! How many miles do you drive?

XterraXtian · **Posted:** Fri May 16, 2008 2:11 pm

That would be 12. :wink:

(unless I really suck at word problems)

cornick · **Posted:** Fri May 16, 2008 2:20 pm

XterraXtian wrote:

That would be 12. :wink:

(unless I really suck at word problems)

hahaha

I drive 13 miles round trip but I do a lot of driving on weekends. So I'm thinking going this route to help the gas situation.

XterraXtian · **Posted:** Fri May 16, 2008 2:24 pm

I'm getting 17 mpg. Unless I drive like an a-hole (beating people off lights,
doing over 75, etc, the usual that gets you bad mileage) then it's worse. But
I'm consistent at 17 mpg. (I drive 24 miles a day...well worth living out here
in farm land....away from the general public!)

If stock tires help...I say do it. We need to do something. Im even scanning
Craigs List for a beater to drive to and from work.

kokopop · **Posted:** Sat May 17, 2008 5:55 pm

I get a car and fuel from my work.

RIXterra · **Posted:** Sat May 17, 2008 6:37 pm

Damn I have a whoping 3 mile (roundtrip) to my work and I still get crappy mpg's..

kokopop · **Posted:** Sun May 18, 2008 8:28 am

RIXterra wrote:

Damn I have a whoping 3 mile (roundtrip) to my work and I still get crappy mpg's..

Damn you are closer to work then i am. I am 1.8 miles one way with no traffic lights.

I love working close to home.

mainechick · **Posted:** Sun May 18, 2008 10:14 am

Thats pretty damn close... I think I gotcha beat though... In a couple of days I will have to step out my front door, cross a street and I'm at work... so I should be getting about 100 mpg right?

But that only means I am one step closer to be living in New England!!!

MtDewMike · **Posted:** Mon May 19, 2008 6:28 am

RIXterra wrote:

Damn I have a whoping 3 mile (roundtrip) to my work and I still get crappy mpg's..

That's because you drive a tank.

Speaking of which, can we get that emoticon?

Going to a smaller tire.

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