Sentences with phrase «sidewalls doing»

The sidewall does not indent so there is no shoulder room.

Not exact matches

I would prefer them if they did not have the white sidewalls.

I did a bit of searching, and everything I see tells me how to interpret sidewall codes.

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

If you do not keep the overall diameter of your tire the same (wheel diameter + sidewall height) you will be altering your final gear ratio which will make your speedometer incorrect, alter your fuel mileage (better or worse depends on driving behavior and altered size), impacts your acceleration, what speed you can reach in which gears, your effective power band, etc..

Excess road noise and a little bit of harshness over sharper bumps are the car's main faults in grand touring — style driving, and both appear to be largely to do with the narrow sidewalls.

The «goo in a can» does NOT work on sidewalls, and driving with a hole in your sidewall is very dangerous

You won't be doing any spirited driving in this family truckster, but what you get in return is sublime ride quality that's smooth even over some of the most badly broken pavement, aided by tall sidewalls on the 17 - inch tires that soak up bumps with little noise or disruption to your serenity.

The power piled in so hard and the rear tyres hooked up so completely that I imagined their sidewalls buckling like they do on dragsters, a sensation fostered by a hint of squirm from the rear.

We also chose to upsize to 215 / 45R -17 because it gives us a wider contact patch with a shorter sidewall and doesn't require modification of the Miata's fenders.

As someone who's personally experienced driving along at 70mph before hearing the most enormous bang, feeling the car veer sharply out to one side and watching smoke and fragments of tire fly off back down the motorway from a sudden sidewall blowout, I can confirm you don't want to experience it.

While I agree this is a deep cut, and I do not like seeing the structure of a tire from the outside, keep in mind this is on the sidewall.

And while the ride remains firm but excellently damped, any potholes or ruts you do encounter will be communicated with a bit more vigour, smaller tyre sidewalls the likely culprit.

Fortunately the G - Wagon comes with a fullsize spare on the tailgate, because we don't think that your local tire shop is going to have a 275 / 55R19 if you put a hole through the low profile sidewall.

Low profile tires like these do not have enough flex in the sidewall to handle potholes.

But as far as I can tell, the steering feel is just as vague as other Tacoma models, and while the added sidewall of the all - terrain tires sure does improve ride comfort, it probably isn't great for road noise.

The tire failures didn't come via sidewall, but rather punctures at the top of the tread.

We were able to get all the required wheel spin and traction from them for the rocks and sand, plus they do grip like a vise on twisty mountain roads, but we still would have requested a more aggressive option with more sidewall.

Some of that credit goes to the Goodyear Eagle Sport all - season tires, which have thick sidewalls (235/50 front, 265/45 rear) that don't get noisy until the upper end of highway speeds.

It sort of reminds me of how the Volkswagen Golf R was setup, which is another sport compact that's quick, offers all - wheel drive, but is priced at about $ 10,000 more than the ST. Bump stiffness over road ruts is stiff, which I'm thinking has more to do with the stiff sidewalls on the performance - oriented Goodyear Eagle F1 Asymmetric 2 tires fitted on the car.

Hellcats are great on sunny Sundays and track days, but for most of the routine driving we do in our neck of the woods, AWD and tires with a sensible sidewall are more than just a luxury.

With the security of knowing there is a spare under the cargo mat, we didn't worry we would be left stranded during a holiday weekend if we tore a sidewall.

It doesn't err on the side of gaudy, choosing thicker tire sidewalls even on higher trim levels.

This could be due to weak sidewalls that easily lead to blowouts, poor or inadequate tread designs that don't grip the road, and any number of other flaws.

If you do not live in Quebec, Transport Canada has Winter Tire safety tips at your disposal, including a guide to reading the sidewall of your tires.