Sentences with phrase «less sidewall»

While we liked the traction offered by the GSA tires, we wondered why an off - road package would consist of 17 - inch tires, offering less sidewall than the 16 - inchers on normal Rams.

Steel sidewall reinforcement results in improved steering response (because of less sidewall flex).

Not exact matches

That means bigger sidewalls, less responsiveness — and if the roads do dry out — a lot less grip.

The engineer can play about with the material, the architecture, the angles of ply we are going to use, and the shape of the tyre — on the sidewalls it's round, but across the tread it's more or less flat.

Today's performance tires have shorter sidewalls and far better / stickier compounds, which means more grip and less give.

I suspect that might have been remedied by less - aggressive tires with more sidewall than the 215 / 45R17 rubber Toyota equipped, though going with taller sidewalls might have dulled the car's respectable, if numb, handling.

Compared to our 20 - inch rolling stock, the larger $ 2,995 specials represent more moving mass for the shocks to control and less tire sidewall to absorb impacts.

Admittedly, a carbon tub, performance suspension and sticky, stiff sidewalled tires will never be luxury car smooth, but the GT certainly gives up nothing to other supercars and is noticeably less jarring than many track - focused production cars (GT2 RS, M3 GTS, ZL1 1LE, etc.).

DANGEROUS oem tires, with less than 10k miles, within two months two sidewall failures.

You can fit larger wheels and tires, but thinner sidewalls lend to a less comfortable ride.