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Tires 195/60/15 or 05/60/15 for Volvo 850

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alfredo

Tires 195/60/15 or 05/60/15 for Volvo 850

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I have A VOLVO 850 1994 , I have to chnage the tires and I would like to know if I can install tirs 205-60-15 ? is there any problem ? . Ilive in venezuela and I do not need snow tires and I can not use low profiile tires due the quality of roads we have. Please your comments.
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Alfredo

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If you want to run 205's, you should look at getting 55 series tires to keep the height of the tire close to original.
1993 850glt

219,000+ miles and counting :)

kenk

Post by kenk »

i am running 205/60/15's and they work fine, i ran the numbers through a calculator and the speedometer differnce was very minimal, i forget what it was off by though

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