Picked up my new tires today.

[LEB Ben]

hey hey you know what this means right??? BURNOUT TO get rid of the old tiressss woot videoss!

I second this motion

 

[lil_dq]

Motion noted and will be taken to the comittee for a vote...


















MOTION GRANTED!!!!!!!!

 

[F 150Cobra]

I was thinkin' the same thing!!!!!! gotta rotate them though. I wanna keep one for the fullsize spare. the two on the front are BALD!

burn the hell out of the bald ones then

 

[countryboytn]

I second this motion

I'll third it....even though he already said OK!

 

[1985 Ford F-150]

I vote yay.

 

[Raptor22]

Nice lookin' tires there Doc.

How does a 305 translate to standard measurements?

 

[Skandocious]

How does a 305 translate to standard measurements?

Didn't you read my other post?

Just as future reference for the people who do not know-- with metric tire sizes, the first number does not give much indication about the DIAMETER of the tire without giving us the latter 2 numbers also....

The first number is how many millimeters WIDE the tire is. The 2nd number is the size of the sidewall of the tire in units of "percentage of width". So a 265/70 tire has 265mm width, and (.70)(265) = 185.5mm sidewall; which equates to 7.30 inches. Multiply that times 2 and add the diameter of the wheel (third number) and you get (7.3)(2) + 15 = 29.6" diameter

Of course you can do all this math or just use online tire size converters


Normally I ***** about how our jacked up system of units in the US sucks-- but this is the one case where I think the metric system really blows. Giving the tire diameter in inches seems so much more logical...

Doc's tires come out to 33.8/12/17. I cheated and used an online calculator

 

[Raptor22]

Didn't you read my other post?




Doc's tires come out to 33.8/12/17. I cheated and used an online calculator

I missed the post, sorry. Of course I can read tires, It was just too late (and i'm too lazy) to do any math...

 

[Skandocious]

I missed the post, sorry.

No bigge. Now you know how to translate them

 

[surewhynot]

Didn't you read my other post?

Yeah, we all have nothing better to do than memorize 15 gazillion Chris posts.

 

[Skandocious]

Yeah, we all have nothing better to do than memorize 15 gazillion Chris posts.

Well Tony if that's the case then how come he didn't memorize it, huh?!

 

[surewhynot]

Cause he's a slacker.

 

[Blade]

guess im a slacker 2
ohh and nice tires doc... good brand i think

 

[1985 Ford F-150]

Hey chris what a 285/75 R16?

 

[LEB Ben]

I'm no slacker...I read it and submitted it to memory...cuz I never knew how to do the conversion before.

 

[LEB Ben]

Hey chris what a 285/75 R16?

If my math was right...it's roughly a 33" tire at 32.8"


285x.75=213.75/10(cm's)=21.375/2.54(in.)=8.415x2=16.83+16(rim)=32.83

 

[1985 Ford F-150]

Thats about what I figured it was. Thats whats on the 72 and it needs some new ones.

 

[Skandocious]

Hey chris what a 285/75 R16?

32.8/11.2/16

 

[LEB Ben]

32.8/11.2/16

Forgot the width...oh well Chris was here to clean it up.

To stay on par with my previous post...285/10(cm)=28.5/2.54(in.)=11.22

 

[1985 Ford F-150]

I see well do they even make 33x10.50s anymore for a 16 inch rim?