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greek_tony
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 Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 12:47 am Post subject: Firestone Wide Oval Radial Size |
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I've fallen in love with the Firestone wide oval tyres but I was a bit weary about the bias ply on the rear, radial on the front idea.
I've seen that coker tyre is making the wide oval in a bias look radial.
They don't make the F70-15 size though. The closest is a GR70-15 (overall diameter is larger 27.70 vs 26.90). Any ideas if this will be too much?
Thanks
Tony
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ALB
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| Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 6:16 pm Post subject: Re: Firestone Wide Oval Radial Size |
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That's a pretty tall tire; acceleration will suffer big time. And depending on the rest of the gearing, you may have overheating problems at highway speeds.
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greek_tony
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| Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2018 2:57 am Post subject: Re: Firestone Wide Oval Radial Size |
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| ALB wrote: |
| That's a pretty tall tire; acceleration will suffer big time. And depending on the rest of the gearing, you may have overheating problems at highway speeds. |
I have found that they make a FR70-15 with the 26.9 size. Still reckon its too tall? May have to go for a BF Goodrich Radial T/A instead 195/60/15
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Boogievan
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| Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2018 2:51 pm Post subject: Re: Firestone Wide Oval Radial Size |
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| greek_tony wrote: |
I was a bit weary about the bias ply on the rear, radial on the front idea.
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Pretty dangerous, as far as I know. Back in the day, I worked at a tire shop with some old timers who had horror stories of mixing and matching bias and radial tires... Causes some really unpredictable handling characteristics, and apparently a lot of rolled cars.
I'm probably overly cautious, but I won't even mix them on my trailer. |
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greek_tony
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| Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2018 3:14 pm Post subject: Re: Firestone Wide Oval Radial Size |
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| Boogievan wrote: |
| greek_tony wrote: |
I was a bit weary about the bias ply on the rear, radial on the front idea.
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Pretty dangerous, as far as I know. Back in the day, I worked at a tire shop with some old timers who had horror stories of mixing and matching bias and radial tires... Causes some really unpredictable handling characteristics, and apparently a lot of rolled cars.
I'm probably overly cautious, but I won't even mix them on my trailer. |
That's what I've heard too. Really unpredictable handling.
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