RE: Flat tires and high speed

[Henry Harper <hah@srv.net>]

>
> Don't some Porches have little metal supporters on the wheels for the valve
> stems to prevent this?
>
> - -glen
>

Yes indeedy, the phone-dial 16"ers on Dad's 86 951 for instance. I promise.

BTW, on his car fronts are 16x7 and rears are 16x8 (um, supposed to be mounted 
this way that is), found out from the monkey-lads at a local tire shop during 
new rear tires mounting. Same size tires all around, but we had one side 
wide-in-front-narrow-in-back. Oops. No handling problems noted though, and it 
was the first time we did anything with tires on that car since he got it. Both 
wide rims are now at the rear with new Michelins, narrows in front with bald 
Gatorbacks. Fun, but Not My Car.

Henry Harper
http://www.srv.net/~hah
1991 200 quattro, 94k, speaking of tire position rotation, do quattros "need" 
it less often than non-awd vehicles?
1988 GTI 16v, 179k, back on the road again with wide-ratio 5-speed, lighter 
wallet should help normally-aspirated acceleration, A/C still blitzencoolin 
though