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Re: bearing replacement, tire wear Posted by Saana88 [Email]  (#207)  [Profile/Gallery]
(more from Saana88) on Tue, 1 Apr 2008 14:25:06
In Reply to: Re: bearing replacement, tire wear, Eiron, Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:49:40 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
That's a reference to circa-1989-1992 Volkswagen ads.
Rotate the tires and put another few thousand miles on them. If you're lucky, the noise will go away.
My father decided to go about 15k of hard driving before rotating his RSi (Blizzak-killer) snows. Him and his heavy car and his lead foot managed to wear the centers of the rears to 4 mm and push up some particularly nasty cupping on the fronts. Anytime after that, you can tell when that car is going 60 MPH by the sudden onset of tire noise. I guess the RSi is better-suited to lighter cars or at least reasonable driving. A 3700 pound 960 wagon with "I've got a locking differential" syndrome is neither. Mom: "Just what we needed, another peculiar noise/quirk/driving nuisance for that car."
The first year I ran separate summer tires (2004) I was impressed. For me, though, I get to finish scrubbing off my Hakka 2s this summer as they don't have another winter left on them anymore.
You may want to run some measured miles with both sets of tires. I've noticed that my mostly-worn H2s are such a smaller diameter than when they were new that I can go (indicated) 79 on the Thruway, which is (actual) 68. I noticed the same with 195/60s on 6 inch rims. Just remember that most mileposts run down the centerline of a highway, so you're best doing a run on a tangent stretch.
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