My tire rant and people on forums...

[colsoncj]

I dont know why but lately people really seem to irratate me. :soapbox:

It drives me crazy when people on forums use the terms 315 and 35" interchangebly. a 315 tire is NOT a 35 inch tire. In fact I can get a 315 tire thats only 28 inches tall. GRRR. 315 mean 315 millimeters wide. It has NOTHING TO DO with the height of the tire. you need both the width (the 315) and the ASPECT ratio. that would be the second number. And you need the rim size to figure out the height. For whatever reason this just pushes my buttons. It makes me what to go out and tell everyone im running a 315 on my corvette and see what they say....

sorry for the rant. I just saw another thread with what do you think of 315s on my landcruiser and i keep thinking 315 whats? 315/40/16... why would you run a 26" tall tire? :confused:

:banghead:

[OldTruck]

Ahh, wow. Tire size nomenclature usually don't upset folks like that.
You posted that at 12:35 AM . . . was your head hurting at 8:00 AM ?

Anybody seen the super-dog movie Bolt, remember the pigeons?
My son & I have a saying for just this type thing . . .
"Yea Billy, wheat's not the same as rye, Billy"

Ok, so that was a little fun, sad, but entertaining.

[79coyotefrg]

:rofl: i know exactly what you mean Cory, that REALLY annoys me as well

there's a helluva lot of difference between a 315-85-16= 37inch tire and a 315-50-15= 27 inch tire

i used to know a guy that was always ordering tires and could NEVER get what he wanted and blamed it on the dealer because he wanted a low wide tire on his 2wd S10, he would order a 205-40-15 thin king the aspect ratio was the width, i tried to "teach" him how it worked and he cussed me out so i told him to go f himself.
never been back

[YotaJosh]

Some things sound better in theory than in practice, and metric tire sizing is one of them.

[Jordan7118]

Agreed, Josh.

Have you been on YotaTech too much, Cory? :D

You really should post up your Corvette with 315s. That'd get the point across. If you don't, I might post it for ya :cool:

[colsoncj]

well... head wasnt hurting at 8 cause i was still up. and I'm glad to see that it annoys others as well!

actually i was ih8mud... i think i will post about my vette and 315s