Last on tires

[Larry C Leung]

Noise probably wear bar related.

LL - NY

On Sat, 4 Aug 2001 17:03:19 -0400 "Philip Montrowe"
<Montrowe at mediaone.net> writes:
> Thank you everyone for all your great help.  I screwed up the last 
> question
> in my previous posting however, so I'll do it right this time.
> 
> I currently have Goodyear Eagle RSA 205/55 16s on the 97 A4 2.8 
> Quattro.
> Some helpful suggestions have been for tires that are only available 
> at
> 225/55 or 225/60. Can I go up to 225/60 and what is the effect or 
> gain of
> doing so?  I don't want to change my rims.
> 
> Also, the rear tires have less than a 1/16th of an inch left before 
> the
> tread warning bars are level with the tire and in the last 4 weeks 
> or so I
> have noticed that there is a lot of what seems to be "tire" noise 
> coming
> from the rear.  It is as noisy as it gets when you have the backseat 
> folded
> down because you have something long in the trunk.  Is this noise 
> caused by
> the tread warning bars or something else in the tire to alert the 
> driver to
> the need to replace the tires.  Or is it possibly some other thing
> (doubtless costing thousands to fix).
> 
> Lastly, I have a TireRack place within about 20 miles of me but the
> DiscountTireDirect web site seems to come in at about $15 a tire 
> cheaper.  I
> don't know if I can get the cheap UPS rate to ship 
> DiscountTireDirect to a
> local garage to do the fitting, so I might have to ship them to my 
> home
> which is about $20 a pair more expensive.  TireRack doesn't seem to 
> make its
> shipping prices easily available (I have to go through the rigmarole 
> of
> ordering first).  Does anybody have any experience in this?
> 
> Philip
> 
>