2007-10-10 17:30:31 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Safety
Wider tires have nothing to do with stopping faster; besides the grip that the tire pocesses. However a skinny tire can have very good grip. So that and your brakes stop the car faster. Wider tires simply give you more control on the room. They give you the really that the grip and hug the road when going around turns so that you can't flip your car. Also the wider the tire...the bigger the tire is for the manufacturer to put more grooves in it for traction. That's why many sports cars or really fast cars have wide tires, because in those cars, people are more likely to fly around turns.
2007-10-10 17:36:18 · answer #1 · answered by regisivjosh7 3 · 1⤊ 4⤋
This is not as simple as some here make out.
Josh makes some good points..
Stopping distance of course depends on your brakes first and foremost.
If your brakes are applied powerfully enough to lock your wheels then yes having wider tyres may prevent this.
If you go too far so that the loading, or weight per square inch is reduced..like putting very wide sports car tyres on a very light car then the loading can be so light that you could just skate over the road surface.
This is also true in the wet where often a thiner tyre will have sufficient loading to cut through the surface water to the tarmac below. There are quite a few variables here so there is no simple answer.
I'd say mostly yes.in broad terms.
2007-10-10 17:47:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
For example:
A P195/75R14 to P205/60R14.
Note that the first number, called the section width, is the only actual size that changes. The sidewall is the same height, but it’s expressed as a percentage of the tire’s width, so it’s now smaller (60) in comparison.
Because the other dimensions don’t change, the amount of tread touching the ground widens and if it’s the same tire model it improves traction and stopping on dry and possibly wet surfaces.
2007-10-11 08:48:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's a few elements in this one.
It mostly depends on the size of the brake disk, but it also depends on the type of rubber and the shape of the tread, the weight of your car comes into it as well. A wider tire does help but it's not the main factor.
Happy stopping from high speeds !
2007-10-10 18:00:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It depends on the conditions.
On a smooth dry surface the wider tyres will have more grip due to their grater contact area, so they should give you better stopping (provided your braking system can provide the additional braking force).
However if there is standing water on the surface wider tyres are more likely to aquaplane (float on the water and fail to grip the surface) because the extra width means there is more water to be expelled from under the tyre.
Generally the standard-fit tyres on any car will be the best compromise.
2007-10-11 05:04:53 · answer #5 · answered by Neil 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I always thought that they did up until a couple of days ago when someone told me they didn't affect the braking speed.
A think the stopping speed purely depends on the surface of the tyres and not on the width of them.
When i look at motorbikes, i can't help thinking that the wide--wheeled ones look safer though.
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2007-10-13 06:19:22 · answer #6 · answered by FreakGirl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have ABS, the tire size would have little to do with stopping distance.
If you don't, a wider tire that is skidding creates more friction
and so you will stop sooner.
2007-10-10 18:41:57 · answer #7 · answered by Ta Dah! 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO, it does no longer. although wider tires do furnish greater traction, greater traction potential how nicely you're linked to the floor, no longer how nicely you grants up. the skill to offer up relies upon on, like the guy above mentioned, the universal of your brakes, and additionally on the fabrics of the tires, and the universal of touch with the floor. Assuming that the tires are in direct, comprehensive touch with the floor, the size of the tires won't rely. basically the coefficient of friction (extremely how friction-y it particularly is) of the two factors will impression the skill to offer up.
2016-11-07 23:19:00 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on several factors. The weight of the car, the size of your break discs, the tyres used, the weather conditions ad-infinitum. But the larger the footprint (area that makes contact wit the road) the more the friction, therefor...Yes.
2007-10-10 18:31:14 · answer #9 · answered by SIR 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yep, the more rubber on the road the greater area you have for grabbing that bitumin, also better handling and better traction, more is better.. lol.
2007-10-10 17:35:35 · answer #10 · answered by banditoauu 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋