The longer speed time has to do with the tires bring taller not the weight. With the taller tires you are actually gearing the vehicle high which should actually help gas mileage if the contact patch was the same. In this case its not 245 vs 225.
The weight does have an effect like on mpg just...
I wouldnt put bigger tires on the AWD. It serves no fictional purpose and will cost more to replace and hit gas mileage. It will be only for looks which if you want to lose out on the above and possibly have a reason for dealer to deny warranty work caused by tires then to each thier own.
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Just doesn't do it for me. The wheels doesn't fit the wheel well (too big). I like the tint though. Question, did you by chance weight the stock wheel and tire?
The traction control main thing is to cut power when a slip is detected, moving power to a wheel with traction is a secondary reaction which will have a delay.
For example you take off from a stop with wet road and spin a tire, engine cuts power and tire stops spinning, no braking to the...
I think its the 317.8 divided by 9.458 which is 33.6 mpg with an average of 52 mph (bout the best speed you can be going for gas mileage). Which aint bad.
But dont get excited because we dont know if the odometer has been veified via GPS and we dont know if this was the same pump pointed same...
Is the road cement with parallel groves to direction of travel? I had similar issues with certain types of tires on this type of road.. I know you said smooth but had to ask.. One thing to check is make sure you lug nut are tight!
Ok i think we get it, two pages of 8 weeks is not going to happen.. Lets get down to the question at hand. If you want to do as said go with the 2.0 AWD. First there is not a lift kit for the FWD and may not be one available in the future. It is more likely there will be a lowering kit before a...