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Anyone ever run 175/65/15 snow tires on a 240 ? 200 1981

posted by  someone claiming to be Roj on  Fri Oct 22 20:35 CST 2004 [RELATED]


It is the Dunlop Sport M3 which is a very highly rated winter performance tire. See the customer ratings at:

http://www.tirerack.com/tires/surveyresults/surveydisplay.jsp?type=W&VT=C

It supercedes the Sport M2 which was also a very highly rated tire.

That is the tire I will buy, I just need to figure out what size is best of the ones available. tirerack.com may not list all available sizes in the M3. www.tiretrends.com does, however.

I suspect there is lots of safety/overkill built into the selection of oem tire sizes with respect to load ratings so I don't think it will be a problem going to a tire with a 7% lower load rating than the OEM tire size. The car weighs what, 3000 lbs or thereaouts ? Load rating of the 175/65s are 1100 each makes 4400 lbs. Tire load rating numbers are probably conservative too so not that worried about it. Just curious to know if anyone else has ever run winter tires of that size and how they worked in various conditions.

Thanks,

Roj






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