Best tire size in a 95 2 door

fernandoh · 10-04-2005, 02:47 PM

I use the 2 door Blazer, 4WD, 95 , engine W for long highway driving distances (at 75 mph most of the time)

and then short but rough off road courses and dirt roads travelling for couple of hundred miles

. The former owner put in the car some stupid but expensive 15x7 " rims with no back space and passenger 255/60/15 tires

. Final product: a kind of roman combat car with the wheels protuding (mostly at front)

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I'm getting around 18 mpg and I want to improve the actual mileage using the best tire combination for both highway and off road use. Any help about the tire size I should go?

j894 · 10-04-2005, 08:54 PM

Alot of the newer 4x4s had 235/75 R15's.
it should say what it had on the sticker in the drivers
side door jam

viper500hcp · 10-10-2005, 12:39 PM

yea, my 00 4x4 has the 235/75/15 tires, im using Toyo Open Country AT and love em. with the stock 5 spoke as seen in my garage

fernandoh · 10-10-2005, 07:01 PM

Good for the Toyos. I like them (in my Neon). But the sticker says 235/70/15 and I feel the Blazer is making too much rpms (2500 at 75) with the small tires it has now and I'm trying to know if the 235/70/15 finally slow the engine for cruising (ideally meaning better mpg). Any thoughts?. Thanks for the replies.

viper500hcp · 10-10-2005, 11:44 PM

well, any increase in Diameter will help rpms, how much so? i dunno. but has your speedo been adjusted for the 60's? im doin 69 at 2000 rpm, so 500 rpm for 5mph seems like alot, even with slighty smaller tires.
p.s my tires are kinda loud, but i like that, plus they look mean. eventually, when i get new rims, 17x9's if they fit, im definitaly goin with these tires again

which toyos you got on the neon. my dad has Proxes 4's on his hooked 91 stang and they handle all that extra power very well, plus they can take the turns well too

fernandoh · 10-11-2005, 10:07 AM

I don't have it "adjusted" but I've measured the speed using marks located at 100 m apart each other, located in highways

. The speedmeter is surprisingly exact with the small tires.
That noise from your tires is kind of disturbing to me, specially when you need to drive some 500-800 kms at high speed

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My Toyos (fitted in the Neon) are the Proxes TPT 195/60/14 H. Good tires for all the year, some 45,000 kms and still good (in fact I've got only one flat tire in two years). I drive them with 1 grade negative camber and no problems. Probably the more aggressive Proxes should be better but are not easy to be found for the 14" size. They don't blow at 200

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viper500hcp · 10-11-2005, 11:45 AM

im not sure why tires make more or less noise than others,(ithink that the more offroad orientation is responsible for the noise) but these, and the dealer told me this, would make more road noise. i shouldnt say loud, but you can here them decelarate more so than the tires i had on there (cant remember the brand). and nothin is wrong with my truck. at first with the new tires, i had bad shocks and could notice the tires cupping, but after the edelbrock upgrade, the tires are still looking great. grantedd, its only been about 12000miles, but the noticably wear has stopped-

10-04-2005, 02:47 PM	#1
fernandoh Registered User Age: 61 Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 81 Location: Santiago de Chile User is: OffLine	Best tire size in a 95 2 door I use the 2 door Blazer, 4WD, 95 , engine W for long highway driving distances (at 75 mph most of the time) and then short but rough off road courses and dirt roads travelling for couple of hundred miles . The former owner put in the car some stupid but expensive 15x7 " rims with no back space and passenger 255/60/15 tires . Final product: a kind of roman combat car with the wheels protuding (mostly at front) . I'm getting around 18 mpg and I want to improve the actual mileage using the best tire combination for both highway and off road use. Any help about the tire size I should go?
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10-04-2005, 08:54 PM	#2
j894 Unregistered User Age: 23 Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 3,532 Location: (on vacation) User is: OffLine	Re: Best tire size in a 95 2 door Alot of the newer 4x4s had 235/75 R15's. it should say what it had on the sticker in the drivers side door jam
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10-10-2005, 12:39 PM	#3
viper500hcp SS turbo Age: 24 Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 561 Location: Oceanside Ny User is: OffLine	Re: Best tire size in a 95 2 door yea, my 00 4x4 has the 235/75/15 tires, im using Toyo Open Country AT and love em. with the stock 5 spoke as seen in my garage
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10-10-2005, 07:01 PM	#4
fernandoh Registered User Age: 61 Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 81 Location: Santiago de Chile User is: OffLine	Re: Best tire size in a 95 2 door Good for the Toyos. I like them (in my Neon). But the sticker says 235/70/15 and I feel the Blazer is making too much rpms (2500 at 75) with the small tires it has now and I'm trying to know if the 235/70/15 finally slow the engine for cruising (ideally meaning better mpg). Any thoughts?. Thanks for the replies.
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10-10-2005, 11:44 PM	#5
viper500hcp SS turbo Age: 24 Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 561 Location: Oceanside Ny User is: OffLine	Re: Best tire size in a 95 2 door well, any increase in Diameter will help rpms, how much so? i dunno. but has your speedo been adjusted for the 60's? im doin 69 at 2000 rpm, so 500 rpm for 5mph seems like alot, even with slighty smaller tires. p.s my tires are kinda loud, but i like that, plus they look mean. eventually, when i get new rims, 17x9's if they fit, im definitaly goin with these tires again which toyos you got on the neon. my dad has Proxes 4's on his hooked 91 stang and they handle all that extra power very well, plus they can take the turns well too Last edited by viper500hcp : 10-10-2005 at 11:46 PM.
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10-11-2005, 10:07 AM	#6
fernandoh Registered User Age: 61 Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 81 Location: Santiago de Chile User is: OffLine	Re: Best tire size in a 95 2 door I don't have it "adjusted" but I've measured the speed using marks located at 100 m apart each other, located in highways . The speedmeter is surprisingly exact with the small tires. That noise from your tires is kind of disturbing to me, specially when you need to drive some 500-800 kms at high speed . My Toyos (fitted in the Neon) are the Proxes TPT 195/60/14 H. Good tires for all the year, some 45,000 kms and still good (in fact I've got only one flat tire in two years). I drive them with 1 grade negative camber and no problems. Probably the more aggressive Proxes should be better but are not easy to be found for the 14" size. They don't blow at 200 .
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10-11-2005, 11:45 AM	#7
viper500hcp SS turbo Age: 24 Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 561 Location: Oceanside Ny User is: OffLine	Re: Best tire size in a 95 2 door im not sure why tires make more or less noise than others,(ithink that the more offroad orientation is responsible for the noise) but these, and the dealer told me this, would make more road noise. i shouldnt say loud, but you can here them decelarate more so than the tires i had on there (cant remember the brand). and nothin is wrong with my truck. at first with the new tires, i had bad shocks and could notice the tires cupping, but after the edelbrock upgrade, the tires are still looking great. grantedd, its only been about 12000miles, but the noticably wear has stopped-
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