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Old Mar 15, 2006 | 09:36 PM
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Cool how much of a difference in circumference will throw off the ABS light?

Some of you are running big n' littles and rim/tire combos that have different size front and rear tires, does it throw on your ABS inop light? I am just curious, as I am going to be running 295/30/18's on the back and 265/35/18's on the front (a circumference difference of roughly 1.3%) on my 10.5 and 9.5 inch wide rims. I know most of you with 10.5 and 9.5 inch wide rims are running 295/35/18's and 275/35/18's, which is a circumference difference of around 2.1%

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Old Mar 16, 2006 | 03:33 AM
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ABS is not that sensitive. The only concern is the speedo which will need to be adjusted if you change the tire size.
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Old Mar 16, 2006 | 09:55 AM
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ABS is not that sensitive. The only concern is the speedo which will need to be adjusted if you change the tire size.

Incorrect . . . is the OD of the tire is inexcess of 1/2" the ABS will not be happy.
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Old Mar 16, 2006 | 10:01 AM
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Originally Posted by Xsta Z 28
Incorrect . . . is the OD of the tire is inexcess of 1/2" the ABS will not be happy.
thanks, that's what I was looking for...
in my situation, there is a difference of around 3/10" from front to rear.

for those of you that are running 295/35/18 rears and 275/35/18 fronts, you are right around a 1/2" difference in radius.....is your ABS happy??

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Old Mar 16, 2006 | 10:50 AM
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thanks, that's what I was looking for...
in my situation, there is a difference of around 3/10" from front to rear.

for those of you that are running 295/35/18 rears and 275/35/18 fronts, you are right around a 1/2" difference in radius.....is your ABS happy??

Paul
I haven't had an issue . . yet

I have driven the car fairly hard at a road coarse and ran inot no issues . . .

But I have been warned that there could be an issue during a panic stop . . .
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Old Mar 16, 2006 | 04:59 PM
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I asked this last week---apparently 1/2 " is about the safest difference between fr-back so as not to disturb the abs...there are abs delete kits available for 125$ or so.
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