New England B.S. Thread

Morning everyone.

No snow here.

Billy, what size are you looking at? Are you thinking of a 265 or a 285? You should be able to find 265's in C loads pretty easily.

 

LIVE

 

255/85 16.

 

Yeah, in that size, you might be screwed. You can get D rated in that size but everything seems to be M/T in that size.

 

Bout the same on my drive from EB to Hingham this morning

 

Where's a good place to get moving boxes?

 

My basement

Seriously though, any of the big box stores or Uhaul. Lowes and Home Depot both sell moving boxes but Uhaul will buy back any boxes you don't use.

 

Home Depot and U-Haul sell them. HD's are cheapies and don't come in many sizes. You might search Craigslist. I gave mine away for free on there.

Mike

 

Thanks . I knew uhaul has them . I just figured they may be cheaper else where.
I have to get a jump start on packing all this shit. It's amazing how much stuff I've accumulated over the last 3 years of living in this townhouse.

 

Says the king of spare parts..haha

For smaller stuff, hit up liquor stores or supermarkets. They'll just give em away.

 

Thanks mike

I'm sure I'll be having a big taco parts give away as soon as I sort through all that crap.

 

Well if you got any light stuff keep me in mind now

 

x2 on supermarkets and liquor stores.


Do you know anyone that works at a hospital or lab? They usually get big boxes that you can grab for free too

 

The tires I'm looking at now come in D. I guess that's not too bad.

I've never seen SL tires. Only P, LT, and XL. And of course mine which don't seem to have a rating.


I've been looking into how the size of tires affect MPGs. Seems wider tires have less rolling resistance due to the load being spread out over more area, and less rotation in the drive train with taller tires. But the aerodynamic resistance and weight negatively affects MPGs.

 

I hadn't heard of SL before either but, to my understanding, they're basically like a C rated tire.

To throw another level of suck into your tire comparison, once you're up and rolling, heavier tires won't do much to your MPG's. They'll absolutely kill you for stop and go driving but, once they're rolling, they don't take much more energy to keep them rolling. Adversly, they will be more difficult to stop so brake upgrades should be considered also depending on how tall and how heavy the tires you purchase are.

 

My current tires are 57lbs. The new ones I'm looking at are the same or less. They will be taller, but not as wide. Plus the rim should be lighter by a few pounds also.

 

what i just did at work you guys would kill me. Customer will never know but I scored some AMSOIL

 

They came in for an oil change with their own oil, and instead you gave them whatever your shop uses and kept the Amsoil?

 

You ever going to settle your debt with me ? Or do I need to go old school on your ass.

 

Fothrmucker..guy already sold the headlights I wanted. My fault, was a little too slow on the draw.