New member and tire question

[dmjr77]

Greetings! My name is Donnie and I live in central New Hampshire. I bought a 2019 Ranger new back in October of 2019. I am very pleased with the truck and plan on keeping it for a long time.

I am currently looking for snow tires for it. Last summer I purchased a set of the 16" factory Ford wheels with the center caps and the sensors. In searching around for the correct snow tire size to match the circumference of the 16" the 17" wheels - I am only able to find a snow tire that's a 265/70/16. Its a bit taller that the converted size of 255/70/16 (converted from the 255/65/17).

If I was to go with the 265/70/16 mounted on my wheels, how bad will it mess up the speedometer, odometer and other things?

Thank you in advance

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[Stage3Motorsports]

Greetings! My name is Donnie and I live in central New Hampshire. I bought a 2019 Ranger new back in October of 2019. I am very pleased with the truck and plan on keeping it for a long time.

I am currently looking for snow tires for it. Last summer I purchased a set of the 16" factory Ford wheels with the center caps and the sensors. In searching around for the correct snow tire size to match the circumference of the 16" the 17" wheels - I am only able to find a snow tire that's a 265/70/16. Its a bit taller that the converted size of 255/70/16 (converted from the 255/65/17).

If I was to go with the 265/70/16 mounted on my wheels, how bad will it mess up the speedometer, odometer and other things?

Thank you in advance

Those are close enough in size to not have any worries in my opinion.
Frank

 

[Frenchy]

Greetings! My name is Donnie and I live in central New Hampshire. I bought a 2019 Ranger new back in October of 2019. I am very pleased with the truck and plan on keeping it for a long time.

I am currently looking for snow tires for it. Last summer I purchased a set of the 16" factory Ford wheels with the center caps and the sensors. In searching around for the correct snow tire size to match the circumference of the 16" the 17" wheels - I am only able to find a snow tire that's a 265/70/16. Its a bit taller that the converted size of 255/70/16 (converted from the 255/65/17).

If I was to go with the 265/70/16 mounted on my wheels, how bad will it mess up the speedometer, odometer and other things?

Thank you in advance

Since you're looking for a snowflake Tire in particular I can tell you right now that the best snow tire that I have used on my Ranger was the Cooper Discoverer EMS. Now I don't believe it is available anymore and has been updated to a different tire but I can tell you it works very well for the ranger since it was still considered a light truck type Tire. I'm pretty sure it was still in the P metrics range but it had no problem holding up to the winter weather for traction and durability.

 

[joseywales]

Hey donnie, hope all is well and welcome

Honestly the difference would be negligible, you wouldnt even need to worry about the speedo (as Frank stated from Stage3) - Love that company by the way!

Now if you went to a tire size of 285/75/16 from a 255/65/17 then you would be around 8-9%% off (faster than what the speedo is saying), which would make a fairly big difference at higher speeds, as in if you are cruising at what the speedo is registering as 70mph, you'd really be going around 76mph-ish

There are good tire calculators online you can fiddle with tire sizes etc and see the differences between them for future reference.

Safe travels in the snow broski!

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