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JoeChiro27

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Hey guess looking for some advice. Thinking I might just keep my 20s on for the winter. But I’m considering maybe one size bigger tire to help with my snow driving conditions. My primary concern is having enough tire in between my truck and the road, and a good tire to not get stuck in snow. I’ve found a few sets of tires on craigslist for some pretty good deals. One set is a 275/60/R20 on some new nitto dura grapplers. How much taller is a 275/60 tire compared to my current Michelin LTX 275/55 tire? If I do go this route I will need to go back to Justin at Black Bear and have him adjust for the bigger tire. He just adjusted in my tune for the changeover to 20s from my stock 17. Not too worried about that but I will need to factor that in. Also I know I would need to make a front end change to accommodate that 275/60 tire. Would I be able to accommodate that size with a couple of turns on the front torsion keys? Or is it a more in depth suspension change than that?
Forgive me, but what is “autocal”? I assume it’s a way to have your speedometer calibrated when you have different size tires/wheels put on. How is this done and where would one have it done?
 

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@Bigbeardenali1992 to be honest, if you really wanted good ‘snow tires’ you need to get the tallest skinniest winter tire thatll fit your 17’s.. a skinny tall tire gets thru snow alot better than a fat short tire... if you want to get technical... but it wouldn’t look good so forget it...
 
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@Bigbeardenali1992 to be honest, if you really wanted good ‘snow tires’ you need to get the tallest skinniest winter tire thatll fit your 17’s.. a skinny tall tire gets thru snow alot better than a fat short tire... if you want to get technical... but it wouldn’t look good so forget it...
I know. I decided I didn’t want to go back to my 17s. Lol. I like my 20s a lot better so that’s why I decided to go with the tires I did. So far everything is good. I didn’t need to change anything. The 275/60/R20s I picked fit perfectly. A little close on the drivers side cuz my front bumper is a smoked crooked. But the tire clears the bottom of the bumper cover with about a half inch to spare. Ride quality is excellent so far. And this morning we are getting quite a bit of rain, and there’s been no slippage or loss of traction at all so far.
 
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Forgive me, but what is “autocal”? I assume it’s a way to have your speedometer calibrated when you have different size tires/wheels put on. How is this done and where would one have it done?
Always ask questions when you need to! No need to be sorrry haha. The autocal is the device that @BlackBearPerf sells to accompany the tune they offer for our trucks. I am still thinking of picking one up from him after he did my person tune last week. The autocal allows you to make changes to the tune done in the vehicle without having to have Justin present. When you make a change under the hood, or tire size, you log data onto the autocal while you’re driving and then email it to Justin. He makes the necessary changes into an update tune and emails that back to you in a file. And then you upload the file to the autocal, and then jsut hook it up to the OBDII port and update tune with the autocal. It’s pretty handy to have.
 

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