[A4] Tire Size Debate
Rocky Mullin
caliban at sharon.net
Thu Mar 8 23:57:04 EST 2007
i had some falkens on my B5 and loved them.
i generally just spend a few hours on tire
rack when i want something, which is never,
not that i lease and run my own nokians in
winter.
On Mar 8, 2007, at 6:29 PM, Tom Love wrote:
> I have the Avid V4S on my Avant and I like them but for quite a bit
> less you
> can get the Kumho ASX which my son put on his A4 and for the $$ I
> feel they
> are a better deal than the Yoko. I am not a fan of Dunlop. They all
> seem to
> get noisy after about 15k miles. I even put the ASX on my 4kq and I am
> pleased. Buy 2 Potenza's and you will now have 4 and you are not
> too pleased
> with the ones you have. Maybe for about $75 more get 4 new matched
> ASX's.
> Tirerack is great but you might do better checking Ebay and get a
> great
> price then trade your good used Bridgestone's to a independent guy
> for all
> or partial cost of mounting and balancing. my 2 cents
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard Hurt" <rnhurt at gmail.com>
> To: "A4 Mailing List" <a4 at audifans.com>
> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 5:28 PM
> Subject: [A4] Tire Size Debate
>
>
>> Ok,
>> Where did we leave the the tire size debate when replacing
>> tires? On one
>> side we had people that said that you absolutely must have the
>> same age
>> tires on all 4 corners. If one tire failed for any reason you had to
>> purchase all 4 to make sure there were no size differences no
>> matter how
>> small. In the other camp we had people that said that as long as
>> you had
>> the same original size replacements you were OK. A little tire
>> wear was
>> not
>> going to make the Quattro system work any harder or damage it in
>> any way.
>>
>> The reason I ask is that I had a tire self destruct today after
>> losing air
>> pressure due to a nail. Now I am faced with purchasing two new
>> tires or
>> all
>> four. I am in the "a little wear wont hurt" camp but would like
>> to hear
>> from others on the subject. Also, what are the current
>> recommendations to
>> replace a damaged Bridgestone Potenza RE950. They don't make them
>> anymore
>> and I didn't really like them in the first place. I generally like
>> Bridgestone but the RE950s are really really loud. :(
>>
>> I'm currently looking at the Potenza G 009 (recommended by my tire
>> guy),
>> Dunlop SP Sport A2 Plus, Sumitomo HTR H4, Yokohama AVID V4S,
>> Fuzion HRi,
>> and
>> the Michelin Pilot Exalto A/S. Tirerack is my dealer of choice,
>> but I'm
>> willing to look elsewhere.
>>
>>
>> Thanx!
>> Richard
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