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Old Jun 18, 2002 | 12:41 PM
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Default Simple solution to estimating speedometer/odo change

Well slap this old dweeb in the head! While trying to figure out what new tires to buy, I wondered what the change in tire diam would do as far as speedometer error was concerned. Did the math (you know d*pi and all that for each size), then I see that Tirerack has a "revolutions per mile" column for each of their tire specs. So much easier to compute it from that! IE: 824 vs 830 is less than %1 change.

Anyone know how many revs per mile Audi calibrates their spedo/odos to for each stock wheel size?
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Old Jun 18, 2002 | 01:05 PM
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Default Better solution

<ul><li><a href="http://www.miata.net/garage/tirecalc.html">http://www.miata.net/garage/tirecalc.html</a</li></ul>
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Old Jun 18, 2002 | 01:16 PM
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Default Much better! But...

The calculated diameter is off by .1" from the factory spec on a few tires I tried. HOWEVER, this is so much simpler, that's not going to bother me!
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