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Offline Dmonday

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Re: 13" banded steel tyres
« Reply #10 on: 12 March 2012, 01:44 »
Banded 13's on a MK3 will look gash :undecided:

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Re: 13" banded steel tyres
« Reply #11 on: 12 March 2012, 09:57 »
how would it effect all tht if i have 13" standard wheels on there anyway? plus 14" to 13" wouldnt really make any difference iv had bigger wheels on diff cars and have made no difference at all


You won't notice the difference  :grin:  a speed camera will though.

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Offline r0bster

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Re: 13" banded steel tyres
« Reply #12 on: 12 March 2012, 14:57 »
Oh neva had problems b4 and I drive past 2 goin 2 work. 4 in a day and neva made ant difference. Strange.

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Re: 13" banded steel tyres
« Reply #13 on: 12 March 2012, 16:12 »
your speedo with the 13's will be running  4.2% too fast,

So when your doing 60 mph as by your speedo your actually doing 57.5, which is why youve never had a problem with your speed cameras, but the speedo is still out..... fortunatley in this case it will read under........

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Re: 13" banded steel tyres
« Reply #14 on: 12 March 2012, 16:32 »
Oh neva had problems b4 and I drive past 2 goin 2 work. 4 in a day and neva made ant difference. Strange.

 :undecided: all down to the tyre size and your talking about stretched tyres which will put the gearing and speedo out.


your speedo with the 13's will be running  4.2% too fast,

So when your doing 60 mph as by your speedo your actually doing 57.5, which is why youve never had a problem with your speed cameras, but the speedo is still out..... fortunatley in this case it will read under........

It will be out a lot more then that.

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Re: 13" banded steel tyres
« Reply #15 on: 12 March 2012, 17:09 »
I based 4.2% on the standard being 205 50 15's & the new ones being 165 70 13

this sums still correct even when checked with  willtheyfit.com

trouble is I dont know what he is running as standard

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Re: 13" banded steel tyres
« Reply #16 on: 12 March 2012, 17:30 »
Oh neva had problems b4 and I drive past 2 goin 2 work. 4 in a day and neva made ant difference. Strange.


That's because it has stock tyres on?

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