narrow tires

[Fred Munro]

Hi Kneale;

The spare cover that comes with the space saver on the Type 44 is a flat
piece of Masonite board. If you use this with a full size spare, it contacts
the tire at the back of the trunk and sits 1 inch above the trunk floor. The
cover for the full size spare is moulded plastic and has a little hump at
the back to clear the tire so the cover sits flat on the trunk floor all
around. It's kind of an aesthetics thing - I used the regular cover over my
full sized spare and eventually the Masonite developed a hump in the
appropriate spot.

Fred Munro
'94 S4  122k km

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kneale Brownson" <knotnook at traverse.com>
To: "Lawrence C Leung" <l.leung at juno.com>; <andycq at capslock.net>
Cc: <quattro at audifans.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2001 3:19 PM
Subject: Re: narrow tires


> I don't get this.  I've got four Type 44 quattros (2 5K, a 2C20v and a
V8),
> all with full-sized spares and flat trunk floors.  So I've got the full
> range of Tors*n applications.  All them have room for a useable full-sized
> wheel under the standard flat trunk floor.  Maybe "sporting" oversized
> wheel and tire combinations result in the need to have a hump in the trunk
> floor?
>
>
>
> At 07:33 PM 01/19/2001 -0500, Lawrence C Leung wrote:
>
> >Originally, Audi had that concern (hence, somewhere on the list, there
> >are full size spare trunk covers for sale, thought about it, then said to
> >myself, I like the flat trunk floor), but not anymore. Less of a problem
> >on an open diff car (quattro 1), than on the quattro 2 set-up (not saying
> >the "T" word), but for the amount of distance the donut's supposed to go,
> >at the speed it's supposed to be limited to, I'll accept Audi's
> >engineer's judgement.
> >
> >LL - NY
>