[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.
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Huw Powell
http://www.humanspeakers.com/audi
http://www.humanthoughts.org/
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