[s-cars] One bad tire on my Quattro (torsen)

[davekase at pdqlocks.com]

Point taken...

Engineer and Cheese Expert
Dave Kase

> Ack...remember, this link is brought to you by people who make a living
> off
> of selling new tires.  If the German engineers didn't design your car with
> more than 0.5% tolerance then they didn't do a very good job.  So you mean
> to tell me that every mass produced torsen differential provides a split
> of
> 50% +/- 0.5%....I think not.  If I designed a mechanism or electical
> circuit
> with less than 0.5% tolerance to real world manufacturing variances I'd be
> fired.
>
> --Calvin
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Kase [mailto:davekase at pdqlocks.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 6:12 AM
> To: calvinlc at earthlink.net
> Cc: S-Cars
> Subject: Re: [s-cars] One bad tire on my Quattro (torsen)
>
>
> http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tiretech/techpage.jsp?techid=18
>
> courtesy of P. Schulz...
>
>
> calvinlc at earthlink.net wrote:
>> What's the difference between having a slightly different size tire and
>> going around a corner with the same size tire?  Side to side is open
>> diffs
>> on both ends, right?  We're talking about 0.5% difference in the
>> circumference of the tire here.
>> --Calvin
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com
>> [mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com]On Behalf Of Dave Kase
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 10:39 AM
>> To: S-Cars
>> Subject: [s-cars] One bad tire on my Quattro (torsen)
>>
>>
>> My B5 S4 has a bad tire from hitting a pothole.  The tires have about
>> 5/32 left on them.
>>
>> I would like to get at least a few more months out of them.  Will I kill
>> my Quattro with a 9/32 tire in that one position (I found a used tire of
>> the same exact size/model).
>>
>> I know its about due for a set of four but I am still researching what
>> wheel/tire combo I want to put on it (by "researching" I mean saving up
>> the money in my wife-doesn't-know-about-it account).
>>
>> Kase
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> S-CAR-List mailing list
>> S-CAR-List at audifans.com
>> http://www.audifans.com/mailman/listinfo/s-car-list
>>
>>
>
>