@ mods please donot merge this post. I think it deserves a seperate post Quote:
Originally Posted by condor @Agent009, I checked with Nikhil. It's a 32 offset. So, go !
Coming to your above post, Ikon does not show up in the list of cars since the stock size is 13". You are seeing the details of 14" x 5.5J. Go for the 5.5J, 14" alloys. | Quote:
Originally Posted by Nikhilb2008 Offset of 32mm is correct for Ikon. Don’t worry about it. |
thanks guys. got some confidence now.
Will order the 14" x 5.5J neo alloys with 32mm offset tomorrow Something interesting now
I managed to test a second hand mapmyindia navigator(some 430 model, dealer was asking 10K for it ) it was really good but expensive. That was the boring part … Now comes the masala part. As he was dispaying the features He showed me that the device can show the actual speed of the vehicle. I was shocked to see that there was a big error with the speedo of the IKON TDCI when I was cruzing at 60kmph the navigator showed that I was actually travelling at 57kmph. I wanted to check again at a different speed so I flattered the dealer and convinced him for a longer drive and so it happed again @ 100kmph on the odo the navigator showed my speed as 94kmph. Couldn’t test it at a higher speed as I ran out of open road too much traffic
I googled around to find this link(Carwale.com Review) so there seems to really a considerable speedo error with ikon. that means if we are at practically travelling at 100km/hr the speedo will show 107km/hr(approx) on the higher side.
So taking that into account if we upsize to 185/65/R14 which give an error of 3.5% on lower side i.e in the earlier case if speedo showed 107km/hr in stock tyres then with the 185/65 R14 tyres the speedo will read 103km/hr(approx) thereby actually fixing the error (at least reducing it by half)in the speedometer To summarize( FORD IKON TDCI owners read carefully)
if you travel 94km(approx) on stock tyres your speed/odo will show that you have travelled 100kms
in other words
if you travel 94,000km your speedo/odo will read 1,00,000kms
i.e you'll be finishing your warranty much earlier i.e a whopping 6,000km before the actual Please Note: I may be wrong in summarizing that the speedo and odo are related and are proportional to each other I'll be posting link to a fantastic tyre size comparision website tomorrow evening(I hope I'll getup by then after tonites new year party). Dont have it on my lappy right now.
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