[urq] Re: [s-cars] TRX Wheel/tire

[Bob]

Colin, do you have a picture? They sound like whats on my A2...


c cohen wrote:

>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>
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>Didn't Treser put TRX wheels on those hideous abortions that started as 5Ks?
>Pushing the edges of the grey matter here...
>-Ian Duff.
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>Subject: [s-cars] TRX Wheel/tire
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>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
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