[A4] To change or Not to change all four tires

Brian J White brian at bjwhite.net
Tue Jun 20 23:40:17 EDT 2006


Huh?!     Reason is the speed rating of the tire....nothing to do with diffs.

If he has good tires on the front, then buy new the same brand, size, 
and model for the rears and be done.   He's fine, and with no damage to diffs.

At 20:34 2006-06-20, Rocky Mullin wrote:

>         it matters less the smaller the difference is.  the reason donut
>spares have a 50MPH limit is for the diffs, because the size is so radically
>different.
>
>At 6:11 PM -0600 6/20/06, Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> >On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 11:47:11PM +0000, Venkat Venkataratnam wrote:
> >>I have '98 A4 2.8 Quattro. I just had a flat on one of my tires (rear one)
> >>on the side wall. Should I change just the two rear ones or all the four?
> >>The rear two might have lasted just couple of more months.




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