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Offline SClay115

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Can someone help me understand Coker's tire sizing?
« on: November 06, 2008, 09:09:52 AM »
Maybe I am truly just inept, but for some reason, 350-16 just doesn't click in my head as a compatible tire size for any vehicle. Obviously, I understand the 16 portion. But what does the 350 mean? I am inherently used to a typical format such as: 160/80/16, or something similar. Tread width/sidewall ratio/wheel diameter. I am certain the answer is very simple, but for some strange reason I cannot find any information on the great wide internet on how to compute that size. Any help would be great. Thanks!

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Re: Can someone help me understand Coker's tire sizing?
« Reply #2 on: November 06, 2008, 03:49:38 PM »
3.50-16=3.5 inch tire width x 16 diameter
3.60-16=3.5 inch tire width, with (3.6 - 3.5 = .10 or ten percent) a minus ten percent (leaving 90 percent) aspect ratio tire height to width.  loosely giving you a 90/90-19.
this doesn't really get much more confusing, suffice to say that fractional sizes like 2.75 or 3.00, 3.50, etc. are 100 percent aspect ratios, or as tall as they are wide. when you get to the 3.60 or 5.10, or 4.60, these are the 90 per cent aspect ratio tires; the extra .10 that they added to the designation meant minus ten from one hundred (per cent).
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Re: Can someone help me understand Coker's tire sizing?
« Reply #3 on: November 06, 2008, 04:38:33 PM »
the answer = .


get the point?   ;)


the answer points to the decimal


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Re: Can someone help me understand Coker's tire sizing?
« Reply #4 on: November 06, 2008, 08:22:54 PM »
the answer = .


get the point?   ;)


the answer points to the decimal


oh, man... i could do this all day.   ;D

Yea after some ridiculously digging, I realized that was the problem. Basically just missing the decimal in Coker's sizing. Thanks guys!

Steve