Re: Tire wear

["Anthony K.B. Chan" <chan@seattleu.edu>]

I do rotate my tires every 6,000 miles and an alignment 6,000 to 10,000 
miles. I even check the tire pressure and varies it according to the 
ambient temperature and all fluid levels every weekend. I never like long 
lasting tires since most of them are optimized for tread life rather than 
grip and handling.  

Anthony Chan, First Hill, Seattle, WA, USA.
chan@seattleu.edu
92' 100 V6 Tornado Red.

On 15 Jan 1997, Sheffield Corey wrote:

> Date: 15 Jan 97 17:32:00 EST
> From: Sheffield Corey <SHEF@omdc.gso.uri.edu>
> To: chan <chan@seattleu.edu>
> Cc: QUATTRO <QUATTRO@COIMBRA.ANS.NET>
> Subject: Re: Tire wear
> 
> >I think Audi uses very soft compound oem tires. I bought my 92' 100 V6 last
> >year with 23,500 miles on the clock and the Dunlop SP6 that came with the 
> >car was pretty worn too. I took the car in for a pre-purchase inspection at 
> >the dealer and I questioned the mechanics to see if there was anything 
> >fishy about the mileage since the tires were wornout. He said it's normal 
> >for all the tires came oem from the factory have soft compound tires and 
> >didn't last very long. 
> 
> Hi Anthony and Henrik,
> 
> 	Rumour has it that all Audis, quattro and fwd, eat up front tires. So
> it becomes important to rotate your tyres(equal opportunity speller:-) every 10
> or so thousand miles. My Pirelli P500s lasted 29K and will not see the road
> again once my snows come off. Last winter the P500s were useless in the snow,
> they'd been fine their first two winters. So my guess is 25K to 30K is about
> average for these cars; unless you opt for a hard hi-mileage tire and sacrifice
> some handling. Just my thoughts on the subject; YMMV.
> 
> 						Happy motoring,
> 
> 								Shef
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