"soft" wheels

[larry leung]

IMHO, I think that the R-8 is "soft". On my '84 4KSQ, I bent two, and that was avoiding potholes (admittedly tough to do in upstate NY, the whole place is a pothole!) on a fairly light car on what would be considered only medium profile tires today. And I was extremely consciensious (sp? don't care at this hour!) of air pressures too. My snow rims on my 200Q are R-8's, and one of them is slightly bent (okay, bought that way, not bad for $5 ea, but it's still bent non-the-less, and the car I pulled them from (a type 43 turbo) seemed reasonably well taken car of). Now I haven't added any more bends to the R-8s on snows, but I'd venture a guess that the extra "padding" of the snows helps the rims. I think, if the R-8 were sturdier (you'd think those 16 spokes would help!), the snowie rims would all be true. Heck, my GTi's rims are still all true, and they're the same size as my 4KQs were!

LL - NY

------Original Message------
From: Grant Lenahan <gfl at erols.com>
To: "Buchholz, Steven" <Steven.Buchholz at kla-tencor.com>, quattro at audifans.com
Sent: September 6, 2000 6:49:54 PM GMT
Subject: "soft" wheels


OK, so I'm taking this thread in a n unexpected turn, but, you wrote:

>These tires gave me a very harsh ride, and I ended up bending a
>set of the soft Ronal wheels ... what was the model, R8?

Are Ronal's thought to be soft or weak?  Of was this just a reference to 
the R-8.  Or a generalized gripe about fragile, costly, alloys :-)  I'm 
about to buy a set of wheels/tires for my new '00 S4, and was planning on 
205/55/16s on Ronal R-7s.  Look nice, good price, reputed good quality.  I 
care very much about wheels keeping thier "true", though, so please advise 
if you think I should consider other wheels .....

Thanks, folks.
Grant
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Grant Lenahan
glenahan at telcordia.com
gfl at erols.com
gfl at alum.MIT.edu

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