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Old 18 May 2008, 05:45 pm
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Default Re: Tires

If you use the Plus 1 approach to going bigger, the overall circumference of the 17 inch tire and wheel will be almost exactly the same as the 16 inch so there's hardly any change to your MPH or MPG.

I went with the 17 inch GT wheel on my Limited Edition. I had 205x55R16 and put on 205x50R17. Using a tire resizing calculator, there an .8% difference or at 60mph the speedometer will 59.9mph
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