Re: Replacing tires on quattro

[Andrew Duane USG <duane@hunch.zk3.dec.com>]

Hairy green toads from Mars made Trey Donovan Drake say:

> The guy trying to sell me tires informed me that it might be harmful to
> the transfer case to have dissimilar or older tires on the rear, and that
> I ought to replace them all at once.  Is this true, even if the rear tires
> are in pretty good shape?

The guy selling your tires is WOEFULLY misinformed.
Quattros don't *have* transfer cases. He's thinking
of 4WD pick-em-up-trucks, not AWD sedans.

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Andrew L. Duane (JOT-7)			duane@zk3.dec.com
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