tire pressures

[Lee M. Levitt]

Larry C Leung <l.leung at juno.com> writes:
>
> Anyone Auto-X a lowered type-44 with 205/55-16's?.
>
> What kind of tire pressures did you (successfully) use?
>
> Generally, if you didn't have a lowered car, what pressures did you use?
> Car is on street rubber (i.e. not "R" rubber), and without any additional
> information, I'm going to have to guess around 50 PSI front, 45 PSI rear,
> at least to start with.
>

Prolly too late for today...but I've run 44/40 (front/rear) on my S6 avant,
with 225/50 16s and 235/45 17s.

Seemed to be about right for the 16s - fronts got nice and warm, rears were
less so after a run.

...and not quite right for the 17s - the rears were still cold after a run.

These pressures were on the recommendation of Ned R., who knows a thing or
two about quattro handling :)

Lee
'95.5 S6 avant (MA plate URS6)
'96 A6 quattro avant