How to weight your car!!
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I think not. Tire pressure being equal, the width of the tire should only change the dimensions of the rectangle footprint. instead of being more squarish, it would be a short length rectangle with a large width and still have roughly the same area
The point of the wider tires, I beleived, was just to have a wider contact patch.
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong
Oh and its neither a minivan or a wagon, its a Puegot, a tiny french car. That means it has all the style of a minivan with none of the useable size
You're right. This is why a wider tire will hydroplane quicker. It is a common misconception that wider tires actually give you more surface area touching the ground.
That said, I'm still left pondering the accuracy of her method. I can imagine there are a lot of variables that could throw your calculation off.
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I need to weight my car as a an imput for the G-tech
http://www.gtechpro.com/
I will try the sexy voiced chick's way and then weight it for real just to see.
I have no clue how much my car weights now. I stripped out every piece of weight, but then I put a cage, bigger wheels, tires and brakes back on. I hope I am back where I started, but I dought it
http://www.gtechpro.com/
I will try the sexy voiced chick's way and then weight it for real just to see.
I have no clue how much my car weights now. I stripped out every piece of weight, but then I put a cage, bigger wheels, tires and brakes back on. I hope I am back where I started, but I dought it
Not true. Think about it and do some research. Why do tractor trailers have so many tires? To distribute the weight, right? If your theory were true then they could simply run larger tires and distribute the weight across a larger contact patch.
The diameter of the tire affects the shape of the contact patch not the size.
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you can weight it any weight station along the high ways and by ways i think your state tax money covers this or you can go to a recycle place and the might weight it for you good luck
grrr, since all my misconceptions have been poked at now, I had to do some research...
Surprisingly to me, it looks like the method in the video should be reasonably accurate.
I guess the width and diamter of tires is all about reducing deflection under a load and doesn't really affect the contact patch while static.
Surprisingly to me, it looks like the method in the video should be reasonably accurate.
I guess the width and diamter of tires is all about reducing deflection under a load and doesn't really affect the contact patch while static.
