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Old 11-15-2011, 01:44 PM   #1
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Pirelli Scorpion Ice & Snow - which set?

I'm looking to buy a set of the Pirelli scorpion ice & snow tires, however there are several option. I will have a 1LT with the RS package, can someone enlighten me on what difference it makes between size of these tires? The pirelli website i look at ranges from "215/65R16" to "275/45R22" but i dont know what these mean.
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Old 11-15-2011, 03:43 PM   #2
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215 - tire width. 65 - aspect ratio (of sidewall height to tire width, in %). 16 - rim diameter.
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Old 11-16-2011, 09:13 AM   #3
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thanks for both your responses, so it looks like it'll be around $300 per tire
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Old 11-16-2011, 12:29 PM   #4
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I'm looking to buy a set of the Pirelli scorpion ice & snow tires, however there are several option. I will have a 1LT with the RS package, can someone enlighten me on what difference it makes between size of these tires? The pirelli website i look at ranges from "215/65R16" to "275/45R22" but i dont know what these mean.
Will you be getting new new rims for the winter or do you plan to run the stock 20" rims? If you get new rims you may not be locked into the 20" tire size (which means cheaper tires).

You can run the 245/45/20 tires on both the front and rear with the stock rims. The rear tires will look a little more stretched on the rear because the rear rims are 9" wide and the front are 8" wide. I ran this setup last winter (245/45/20 Pirelli Scoprion winter tires on the 8" front and 9" rear rims).

This winter I'm going to run 8" front rims on all 4 corners so I can rotate them.
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Old 11-16-2011, 01:24 PM   #5
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Will you be getting new new rims for the winter or do you plan to run the stock 20" rims? If you get new rims you may not be locked into the 20" tire size (which means cheaper tires).

You can run the 245/45/20 tires on both the front and rear with the stock rims. The rear tires will look a little more stretched on the rear because the rear rims are 9" wide and the front are 8" wide. I ran this setup last winter (245/45/20 Pirelli Scoprion winter tires on the 8" front and 9" rear rims).

This winter I'm going to run 8" front rims on all 4 corners so I can rotate them.

You really can't tell the difference on the 245/45/R20's on the rears your silver verses my 275/40/R20 on my rears on my RJT.

Only issue is that tirerack's website won't show the 275/40/R20 when you search on the car type, even though they have them

Do a search on tire size and they come up.

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Old 11-16-2011, 04:34 PM   #6
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Does the rim size affect driving on snow/ice at all? You would think a larger rim might have better control, or no?
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