its to do with heat disappation. a wider tyre will retain heat longer and has less risk of over heating.
grip is friction. Friction is a product of the weight of the car and the co effieicent of friction (which is a constant for a given rubber compound and road surface)
but I agree it may sometimes be benificial to use a narrow tyre like you said.
There must be benefits for wider tyres.
its to do with heat disappation. a wider tyre will retain heat longer and has less risk of over heating.
grip is friction. Friction is a product of the weight of the car and the co effieicent of friction (which is a constant for a given rubber compound and road surface)
Yes, and I'd like some curb protection. the 205's appear to acutally present the rim to the curb! I'm hoping the 215's might have a couple of mm more on the width.
This is true, but in reality I dont think it's that simple. There must be benefits for wider tyres, for track work, otherwise like was mentioned before; racing teams would use narrow tyres for qualifying (when there is limited use of the tyre.)
Does that not assume that the orientation of the tyres is constant and weight distributed evenly accross the tyre. I would think via some means more rubber will help in the corners (when the stress in certain parts of the tyre is going to be larger than others.) I could be wrong though.
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What is the OEM CTR rim width?
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And I can't see how wider tyres don't improve grip...
There must be a reason high performance cars use 300+ tyres and oltimer 22hp fiat 500's use 95 or so
These tyres are generally pretty well recieved. A bit more expensive than the falkerns though.question:
I myself was thinking of Eagle F1 GS-D3 tyres 215-45/17.