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Default Does a tyre change its CIRCUMFERENCE when underinflated?

On 23/06/18 08:09, Jeff wrote:


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On 23/06/18 07:08, Jeff wrote:


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Answer. not by very much, if at all.

But the radius clearly does vary significantly.

This seems to be a perpetual urban myth.

It can't be given that Andy and others have had a number
of warnings that have turned out to be accurate every time.


It tyre pressure sensors are using this, it has to be a very very
complicated bit of software to detect - say - less than 1% change in
RPM relative to the other wheels.

Yes, but that isn't hard to measure when its relative to other wheels.


A piece of online research
[https://one.nhtsa.gov/cars/rules/rul...prmonsys.html]
showed that relative wheel rotation was pretty crap at detecting low
tyre pressures especially in all 4 wheels or 2 wheels on the same side
(= I am going round and round in circles!)

Hence the move to in wheel sensors.

I am notr syoing it doesn't work, just that it relies on some pretty
iffy interpreation of very small differences in road speed.

Tyre tread belts do strech under inflation, but not by much. The
radius is completely irrelevant as a road weheel is not, in use, round
and does not have a 'radius.'


Of course it does at the only place that matters, between the axle and
the road.

Oh dear. Oh dear oh dear.

You just dont get it, do you?





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