“It would price around $ 164,000 to send 1 of the Yukon’s wheels (tire incorporated) into orbit aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9.” – Charley Ladd, road warrior
Our long-term GMC Yukon XL is so big—well, it has “XL” right there in its name, does not it? It has a massive 6.2-liter V-8 engine. Its huge cabin seats 8 comfortably, plus their stuff. And its big 22-inch wheels look damn great, but Charley is right—shipping them into space (present price: practically $ 2K per pound) in one particular of Elon Musk’s rockets wouldn’t be cheap. We realized this when running our common entrance exam on the GMC—as we do for each and every one particular of our lengthy-term vehicles—and we removed the wheels to measure brake-pad thickness. (It’s a measurement we’ll take once again when the GMC leaves our fleet to analyze wear.) The wheel removal proved to be a workout.
Huge rims on SUVs—even from the factory—aren’t news any longer. But we had never ever especially sought out the wheels’ particulars, even even though we know they’re quite heavy. Following road warrior Charley Ladd—who is far from weak—struggled to wrestle the Yukon’s wheels off, we decided to weigh the beasts. As it turns out, each and every of our long-term Yukon XL Denali’s wheel-and-tire combos crushed the scales at 88 pounds.
As any amateur suspension designer knows, unsprung weight—essentially, anything in the suspension, brakes, and wheels—can have a large impact on overall automobile dynamics and wheel handle more than bumps. The Yukon, for that reason, ought to ride like a broken Radio Flyer wagon, but thanks to the Denali model’s regular Magnetic Ride Manage adaptive magnetorheological dampers and the XL physique style’s longer wheelbase, the truck rides very well. So why are we noting the precise weight of the wheels?
Allow us to paint you a image: It is dark out, possibly raining, and a single of your Yukon’s 22-inch tires meets a nail. You’re a zillion miles from anywhere, and a tire modify is in order. Yep, have enjoyable pig-wrangling that giant chrome wheel and its dead tire up into the trunk—you didn’t have anything back there, did you?—all by your lonesome following installing the 17-inch spare. It hasn’t occurred to us however, but we suggest that any prospective or existing Yukon owners out there commence practicing their power squats—or familiarizing themselves with the location of the OnStar button.
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