[A4] tires, speaking of tires,	anyone have any used 17's lay'n	around?
    Huw Powell 
    audi at humanspeakers.com
       
    Thu Dec 27 10:14:33 PST 2007
    
    
  
>>Your 4 wheels will almost never be turning the same speed, even if
>>you are going exactly straight.  Even brand new tires with slightly
>>different pressures will have different rolling radius.  This is why
>>we have differentials instead of just connecting everything together,
>>to make up for when things aren't turning at exactly the same speed.
Yes, but forcing a differential to constantly rotate to make up for tire 
diamter issues is hard on it.
That said, you do have to screw up quite a bit to force this.
For handling it would be nice to have four identical tires.
To take care of your diffs, they should at least be the same size.
-- 
Huw Powell
http://www.humanspeakers.com/audi
http://www.humanthoughts.org/
    
    
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