More on tires for the A4q

[Ron Williams <golf@bway.net>]

Reading the thread on tires for the A4q over the last month or so I
began to smell a "bandwagon" labled Dunlop D60 A2. I wondered what was
wrong or not up to par with the stock Goodyear RSAs that everyone seemed
to want to change and so I paid attention to as many miles as my
concentration would allow. I now have over 500 on the car and I could
detect no short comings until my first drive through 25 - 35 mph
crosswinds. As a gust hit, the car would feel like it was riding on
Jello treads. 

I haven't done anything about "other tires" yet but inadvertently I
carried the experiment over to my pick-up, a Chevy K1500 with one size
over tires on it. I noticed that the A4's tires rapped irritatingly on
the seams of concrete based road surfaces. My pick-up with over inflated
(55 lbs.) tires sent no such rapping back on the same exact roads.
Smooth as glass. (???) Well the p-u tires were over inflated because of
a period of hauling heavy loads and I was a little tired of their
harshness and so reduced the pressure to 44 lbs. Lo and behold, rap,...
rap,... rap, the softer tires sent back the road seam message and, in
the latest cross-winds, felt like (slightly firmer) Jello.

My next step is to add 3 or 4 lbs. of air to my A4's RSAs and see what
happens. I noticed that some of you running D60 A2s run them with more
air than normal. Has anyone tried more air in their RSAs? What's up?

Ron