05-21-2012, 11:56 AM | #1 |
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Better mileage with winter tires!
I have the 19" package with Eagle LS2 all seasons. My winter set up is the Nokian Hakka for SUV. 18" and narrower and the speedometer is correct. With snow tires I have been getting ~ 23.5 to 26 mpg. The past month or so using my all seasons I at most got up to ~ 23.9 mpg, measured between fill ups.
Probably because of the wider tires. I don't think I drive too much harder. |
05-21-2012, 03:52 PM | #2 |
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Why don't you use dedicated summer tires when you use dedicated winter tires? But re milage: My experience is that what you might gain with lower roll-resistance summer tires over winter tires you loose with the air conditioning. So overall you stay level.
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05-22-2012, 08:23 AM | #3 |
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I have slightly poorer mileage here as well with summer tires, even though summer tyres are 10mm narrower than my winter ones!
It is very small difference and I think I drive more aggressive now with winter tyres and also we have higher speed limits during summer: rural roads 80->100 km/h highways 100 -> 120 km/h Nokian hakkapeliitta 7 as winter tyre (non runflat) and Pirelli Cinturato P7 as summer tyre (runflat). The difference is about 5%. |
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