[A4] tires, speaking of tires, anyone have any used 17's lay'n around?

[Brett Dikeman]

On Dec 27, 2007, at 1:14 PM, Huw Powell wrote:

> Yes, but forcing a differential to constantly rotate to make up for  
> tire
> diamter issues is hard on it.

Huw's on the money here.

I think I overhead Chris Miller once say that Volvo's system didn't  
like tires with different wear levels and such- that the XC saw  
high(er) failure rates in those cases.

> For handling it would be nice to have four identical tires.

Ding!  Even tires that are different ages will have different levels  
of grip, yep.  This is probably most noticeable for people when they  
brake, hard.  ABS comes on for the wheel that starts slipping, but  
that wheel is largely useless every time ABS kicks in...and if you  
only have three-channel ABS and it's a back wheel, you just lost both  
back wheels...

Brett
PS:Side note, this had me thinking: a new way to get people to  
contribute to the wiki!  Post something controversial and then link to  
it in a post.  "BAH!  That moron, he's all wrong.  Now how do I edit  
this..." :-P