one flat turns to four

[cobram at juno.com]

I concur, I bought more than a few type 44 Quattros that were too cheap
to pass up and had relatively inexpensive problems if you took the labor
rate out of the equation.  Some had 4 different tires, by different I
mean different, REALLY different, brands, plies, age etc.  It was to be
expected, as the previous owners were driving the cars into the ground
and the value of the vehicle would usually double if you filled the gas
tank.
Then all drove fine, on the more egregious tire mishmashes there was a
bit of binding noticed on tight slow turns, but that was it.   The cars
had problems, but never anything in the drive train or anywhere else
which could remotely be attributed to the tires.


BCNU,
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

Mike Arman <Armanmik at earthlink.net> writes:
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> Actually the one flat will turn to FIVE - four tires and your wallet 
> will be flattened.
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> My feeling is that while a long term gross mismatch *may* just 
> possibly create problems for Quattro, 
> small ones simply don't matter. If the Quattro system was THAT 
> sensitive to miniscule differences in 
> tire diameter, the junkyards would be filled with blown up Quattros 
> which are uneconomical to repair 
> because the diffs and t*rsen all puked simultaneously.

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