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Your speedometer and everything will be off with a different size.
With your new tires, which are about an inch and a half shorter, needs about 45 more revs per mile than the others.
Also, with the smaller tires, your Speedo will read 60 when you're actually doing a little over 56.
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Smaller Tires weigh less as well
Yes, when odometer says you have gone 60 miles you have actually gone 56 miles
Say you put in 16gal of gas and odometer said you have traveled 288 miles
288 / 16 = 18mpg
But you have actually only traveled 270 miles
270 / 16 = 16.8MPG
So MPG hasn't really changed
Yes, when odometer says you have gone 60 miles you have actually gone 56 miles
Say you put in 16gal of gas and odometer said you have traveled 288 miles
288 / 16 = 18mpg
But you have actually only traveled 270 miles
270 / 16 = 16.8MPG
So MPG hasn't really changed
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