Tire rotation - vibration

[Bill Rowe]

I thought tire rotation on quattro's were not required or at least not
too critical?

-----Original Message-----
From: quattro-admin at audifans.com [mailto:quattro-admin at audifans.com] On
Behalf Of Tex Terry, II
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 1:06 PM
To: quattro at audifans.com
Subject: Tire rotation - vibration

For what it worth - when the tires are rotated, get the tires balanced. 
This re-balancing will help get rid of vibration.  The tires will have
worn
in a certain pattern, due to whatever alignment was set for the
wheel-axle
that the particular tire came off from.  When the tire is placed in
another
wear position, by being placed on another wheel-axle position, then a
new
wear pattern will start.  Since the tire will be worn, the old wear
pattern
will cause a vibration, which can only be compensated by balancing the
tire.  After balancing the tires, then get an alignment check done as
soon
as possible.

Tex Terry, II
83 5kt non-quattro 
Franklin, PA  USA