flat!

[Rocky Mullin]

At 10:38 PM -0500 1/19/04, Brett Dikeman wrote:
>At 5:12 PM -0800 1/19/04, Rocky Mullin wrote:
>>	ah hell, my tire is flat.  nokian hakka q.  filled it this AM and
>>it's flat again.
>>
>>	i seem to recall hearing that on a quattro (2000 A4 in this case)
>>one needs to replace all four tires at once.  is this really true?
>
>Depends entirely on how much wear is on the remaining three.  Get a 
>tread depth gauge and find out.

	the tires don't have much wear.  like i said, they maybe have 10k on
them.  i will check the trad and report back!

>Why wouldn't you patch it, anyway?  At least figure out if it's just 
>the rim seal(soapy water).

	it's an invisible puncture in the sidewall, just beyond the tread.
according to the shop - not fixable.  i got the tires at les schwab, so they
have a lifetime warranty.  LS doesn't carry nokian anymore, but one of their
guys is looking for the how to get a hakka q (205 60/15) for me to honor
their warranty.  still it might be more hassle than it's worth to drive an
hour to get a $75 tire for free.

	say, where can one get nokians in the USa these days?

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