[s-cars] TRX Wheel/tire

[c cohen]

I believe they did and as you say the wheels were hideous whereas these are
the classic 5 spokes on the museum's S1s.  Also these have an ET of about 13
or 14 vs the Urq's requirment for >30.  Its possible that these wheels may
have been used on the A series of Rally cars although I have never seen a
picture of an A car with this wheel pattern.

Colin

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ian Duff" <iduff at rcn.com>
To: "'c cohen'" <ccohen5 at compuserve.com>; <quattro-digest at audifans.com>;
"'Audi S Car List'" <s-car-list at audifans.com>; <urq at audifans.com>;
<Audi20V_Kruemmer at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 8:39 AM
Subject: RE: [s-cars] TRX Wheel/tire



Didn't Treser put TRX wheels on those hideous abortions that started as 5Ks?
Pushing the edges of the grey matter here...
-Ian Duff.
-----Original Message-----
From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com
[mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of c cohen
Sent: Saturday, 20 December, 2003 6:33 PM
To: quattro-digest at audifans.com; Audi S Car List; urq at audifans.com;
Audi20V_Kruemmer at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [s-cars] TRX Wheel/tire


Folks:
I bought some wheels earlier this year which with the help of the lists I
have discovered are definitely metric or TRX sized.  They have the Audi 5 x
112 bolt pattern with the rounded bolt seat (not the cone) and have the 5
spoke star pattern that was used on the competition SQ.  Diameter is 390 mm
and offset seems to be about 15 or slightly more than the SQ which is 10 but
much less than the Urq which tends to be in the 30s.

Some have mentioned that Audis were fitted with TRX tires at some point but
I have not seen any printed reference to this. When and which cars?  I had a
non US M5 in the early 80s which had these Michelin exclusive tires but I
never saw them offered on any of My Audis around this period.

Michelin still make the tires which cost the same as SO3s landed in the US
which I suppose is not all that bad as compared with say 60s size Ferrari
GTO tires so I might get these wheels to fit with a 2 mm spacer up front.
But these are not SQ wheels.  They are very light though.

Colin
_______________________________________________
S-CAR-List mailing list
S-CAR-List at audifans.com http://www.audifans.com/mailman/listinfo/s-car-list