Re: Replacing tires on quattro

[Kiwi <enzeder@home.com>]

So it won't hurt the center diff to continuously run with different size
tyres front and rear?
Is there a point at which size does matter?  Is 5mm tolerable, but 15mm not?
I always thought that a size difference would slowly (depending on the
delta - larger delta = more wear) wear the center diff.
Now, as for Trey, assuming he bought the same brand of tyres and as he has
them on the front, I wouldn't assume any problem, so salesman would still
be wrong.
Arryn


At 04:23 PM 11/10/1999 -0500, Andrew Duane USG wrote:
>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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