tire truing

[Lee M. Levitt]

Burl Vibert <blur at sympatico.ca> writes:

> If you have a flat spot from a lockup you may be able to
> find a race shop that shaves tires to get this out but

Since I had two tires flatspotted Saturday at an autocross training (done by
an instructor, no less), I posed this question on nersolo.org. Was told that
only new tires get shaved...otherwise, stuff embedded in the tread would
shred the shaving machine blades.

Lee
'95.5 S6 avant
'96 A6 quattro avant