Re: Tire Tip

[dan_masi@MENTORG.COM (Dan Masi)]

On Oct 13,  8:35pm, AHKai@aol.com wrote:
> Subject: Tire Tip
> All this talk about blow-outs and so forth reminded of something from this
> summer:
> 
> Just a tip to any of you who mail order your tires.  Watch out when you take
> them to have them installed at a tire shop.  I ordered a set of Sumitomo HTR
> 4's (205/60-15) from the Tire Rack for my sister's Saab 900 while I was
> visiting her and called a few tire shops when they arrived to check prices
> and see if they would install them or had a problem with that.  The local
> Goodyear Service Center in Covington, KY sounded pretty decent...
> I took it out
> for a test drive and the car felt really nice, I noticed that the car felt a
> little stiffer going over bumps, but just attributed it to the tires being
> stiffer than the Yoko's.  Well, to get the point, I should have checked the
> pressures when I got home that day because when I finally did 2 days later,
> all the tires were inflated to almost 55psi, yes, 55psi!! 

2 days?  Heck, that's nothing.  I drove my brand-spanking-new A4Q
fresh from the dealer for a week and a half with the RS-A's at 
52psi.  Mostly highway, which contributed to my not noticing more
quickly, plus it was a new car after all.  ("Gosh, I don't remember
the suspension being this stiff on the test drive...").  

Besides, I had made a point to ask the dealer what the tire
pressures had been backed off to when I picked up the car.  So
it didn't occur to me that they might have forgotten to do it!

I'm running them at 36 now, and my teeth aren't chattering nearly
as much.

Dan Masi
'96 A4Q