Benefits of a wide tire vrs a narrow tire?

Question

What are the benefits of a having a wide tire verus a narrow tire on a car?

Answer 1

narrow tire will tread water better.

Answer 2

Narrow Tires

Answer 3

Benefits and draw backs of tires.

Narrow tires......Will obtain traction better in sand, snow, mud, and deflect water on wet roads. Plus less tire contact on the highway thus increasing fuel mileage. Tracking is best with narrow tires.

Wide tires.........Will "float" on sand, good for traction on rocks. Great for traction at a dragstrip or race. Look cooler on a lifted four-wheel-drive. tracking is poorer, wide tires hydroplane quicker than narrow tires. wider tires typically can carry a heavier load.

Answer 4

Coming from a farmer in MN, with my fair share of winters. During the time the ground is soft, we add duels to our tractors. Because all the weight is on a single narrow tire. Because of that, it sinks and gets stuck. We do not use duels for more traction. We use duels to make the tractor lighter. When you add a duel, you now have one big very wide tire on the rearend to help you float. Let's say the rearend of the tractor weights 7,000 pounds. Each back tire is carrying 3,500 pounds. If you add a duel to that side, now you have to divide that 3,500 between the two tires. Which means each tire would now be carrying 1,750 pounds. Usually when a farmer puts duels on, he says well there goes my traction. Because, you loose weight per tire. Without the weight and friction, you can not pull as much.

For snow, Narrow tires are best. They are better in snow, because most of the snow. Does not go under the tire. Most of it is pushed around the sides of the tire. A narrow track, takes less effort to push through snow. Than a wide track. Next time is snows, and you want to do a narrow vs wide. Take a shovel and push it through the snow. Then grab something more narrow, like a stick. Stick is narrow and pushes through easy. Because it's narrow and less material to move. But also like I was talking above. The wider the tire, the more surface area. The more surface area, the lighter it is on the ground. When comes to snow, you want lots of weight in a small area. Something that goes, straight to the ground where traction is at. Top on the snow is all loose, there is no traction there. So smaller area, the more weight and better chance of getting good traction.

When comes to ice.. Neither tire is really better. Only the rubber compound can make stopping better, or like spikes or tire chains. Something that grabs it, which a plain wide or narrow tire is not very good at. Unless it's a special compound.

Lot of people assume, putting duels on a truck is like 4wd. No it's not.. Yes you now have 4 tires spinning. But really all you did is made the back tires wider.. And you lost weight per tire=bad traction. Huge path the tires have to push through snow. Sort of like, I sold my 1 ton dually truck for a 3/4 ton because it's all together a better plow truck for snow plowing. Back to the duels and 4wd.. So the difference between a duels and a 4wd truck is, not the count of tires. It's weight.. You added weight be engaging the front tires. You have the cab, engine, and, glass windows all on the front tires. The rearend still weights the same on a pickup. But now the front weight is added to the equation. Only way to make duels beneficial for more traction. Is to double it's current weight. If the tractor weight 4000 pounds at the rearend.. With duels, you would want as much weight added as possible. If you can add another 4000 pounds, bringing the total weight to 8,000 pounds. Then you would have better traction. But also would gain the benefit like a 4wd pickup..

Wide tires are heavy, bad for gas mileage, and less wind drag.. But better for hot roads, and sticky traction.

Winter it's all about weight and friction. Also, when you are driving along. And hit a big pile of slush, the car wants to pull you into the ditch.. That's because the tire is fat and has a lot of width resistance. If you came across that same situation with a narrow pizza cutter tire. It would most likely be less severe or you wouldn't even notice it at all. It's like pushing 5 foot snow plow... vs a 8 foot snow plow.. Which will be harder? Same physical occurs with tires.

Answer 5

You get better traction with a wider tire, however a narrow tire will get through water and snow better.

Answer 6

Wider tires give you more traction on dry surfaces while creating more friction. Narrow tires give you less traction while creating less but will 'hydroplane' less on wet streets. Tire selection is trade off between, gas mileage (less friction + less weight = better MPG), usage (mostly dry area vs wet area) and cost.

Hope this helps!

Answer 7

slender tires with huge lugs continuously supply greater helpful traction interior the comfortable stuff. Studs help too. you do not have the alternative of floating on perfect of the snow with a great tire. you may pull that off on airborne dirt and dust, distinctive the time, yet no longer snow. in case you look at autos that are required to get places for actual paintings (no longer poser autos) you will continuously discover skinny tires.

Answer 8

depends on what you're using the vehicle for. a wider "footprint" will displce the weight on that tire better, giving you better traction. normal, evryday highway, street use it's allright to use thinner tires. snow/offroad/sand, wider tires with much less pressure than the maximum PSI rating will give very good traction. also, wider tires witha low profile will give you better stability in turns.

Answer 9

wide tires will have a wider contact patch and will produce more friction between your tire and the road surface, thereby producing more grip. handling characteristics will improve, in addition to acceleration and braking. you will also operate at lower values of slip angle due to the broader contact patch, putting less wear on the tire and increasing tire life.
wider tires obviously weigh more and will have a greater rotational inertia. this means you have to use more engine torque to get the tires moving, which will hurt your gas mileage. the added friction the tire will produce will also decrease your gas mileage.
so it depends on what you want.

Answer 10

wider tyres give you better traction, but it will reduce the speed and pick up a little. also the wider tyres will affect the mileage. the narrow tyres gives you better speed and mileage than the wider ones.

Answer 11

Wide: Better traction and handling.

Narrow: Better fuel economy.