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Old 04-13-2008, 02:51 PM
srockgibson srockgibson is offline
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Default Re: Tires and HCII fuel economy

Don't know if you a member of the Yahoo Honda Civic Hybrid group. A couple of people over there have replaced the Dunlops with Michelins and reported big dropoffs in mpg (decreases in the 5-10 mpg range). I think there's a view that the softer tire increase rolling resistance.

If you search the Yahoo group's archive messages on the keyword "Michelin" you'll get the details.
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