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Originally Posted by island911
The points of contact may spread but that is not the same as increasing contact area.  |
A tire is not bubble gum. It is not concrete.
Difference will be slight but up to a point the contact patch will increase by a small amount when only width is changed.
Do you agree that a concrete tire would have a larger contact patch as width is increased?
Btw, I worked for Goodyear and did work on tire design at one point in time.