Re: german tires (bad bad)

["Randy B" <sirocco@telocity.com>]

Awww....Come on Josh.
You know most (all?) tires were never "designed" to be used this
way......agree?
The purpose, like Dirk mentioned, is to clear the fender wells with deep
dish wheels.
It might work but that doesn't mean it is working at it's optimum or that it
isn't over stressing the sidewall.
Rim width (along with tire pressure, camber, toe, etc.....) will affect the
footprint/contact patch of the tire.
Correct me if I'm wrong but with the wide wheel/narrow tire setup you would
have to over-inflate the tire (stressing the tire in itself) to get a flat
contact patch.
I would venture that the same tire on two different wheels, one correct
width and one wide, would perform better and last much longer on the wheel
with the correct width....anyone disagree?

Again, I am not knocking this type of mod/look but you do have to recognize
it's limitations.

Sorry for yankin' yer chain but.....  :^)

Randy
PS Anyone remember the day's of the early A1's, putting 205/50/13 tires on
the stock 13X5 wheels (now I'm showing my age)....LOL, how things have
changed.....

> it handles just as well as it did with 15s and normal sized tires.
>
> the only difference is that it looks better with fatties than with little
> wheels.
>
>
> Josh Able
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Scott F. Williams" <sfwilliams@home.com>
> To: <jester@westfailure.net>; <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 4:55 PM
> Subject: RE: german tires (bad bad)
>
>
> > For the life of me I can not understand how modifications that
*obviously*
> > reduce performance or safely can still look good to people. To me it
just
> > demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of how to tune effectively.
> But
> > then... I'm an extremist, I guess. Anyway, to each his own.
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> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: owner-scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> > > [mailto:owner-scirocco-l@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of
> > > jester@westfailure.net
> > > Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 4:52 AM
> > > To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> > > Subject: german tires (bad bad)
> > >
> > >
> > > Okay,
> > >
> > > Lets hear one of you guys argue that this is a safe way to mount
tires?
> > >
> > > http://home.arcor.de/andreas-pfeiffer/pages/pictures/sonstige/sons
> > > tige-04.htm
> > >
> > > take care,
> > >
> > > Steve
> > >
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