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Originally Posted by Finny61
So I am getting a set of Blizzaks, looking forward to it! One thing the guy at the garage told me was that for my car I have the option to go with 1 inch less on the tire (standard all season is 17 inch, go to a 16 inch winter). Is this viable? I guess there would be some savings but does it hurt the tread life to go with a tire with a narrow profile?
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The 16" versus 17" is referring to the diameter of your rim. 16" will be fine and I don't think it will affect tread life in any noticeable way, but it might make it look like you have disproportionately large wheel wells since there will be less wheel/tire in there to fill them up...depending on how "cool" you want your car to look, this could lame it up a bit.