Couple Questions - Long

[scirocco@powerlink.net (John C. Worden)]

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At 08:18 PM 2/14/02 -0500, cwass99@rogers.com wrote:

>Hi,
>      About a month ago I picked up new rims and tires for my 87 
> 8v.  Normal VW
>14 inch rims with nice wide snow tires (essential for driving in Ottawa).  I'm
>wondering if the weight of the rims (they're a lot heavier than the 13 inch
>stock rims) and the bigger tires would cause the 2 problems I seem to have
>acquired since then.


It could be any number of things, but personally I would check the very simple
and obvious things- air pressure- often overlooked-but very important, balance
of the tires(also are the weights still there-any fall off), alignment.
I noticed you said nice wide snow tires; that would be the biggest problem,
although unrelated to what you experiencing, since snow tires should be skinny
to go through the snow.



John C. Worden
Bucksport, Maine

'98 Dakota 4x4-Just rolled 100K (with skinny studded tires for the winter)
'86 Scirocco 8V-
'81 Scirocco 2.0 16V -
'78 Scirocco Brazil Brown Metallic,  4 speed.

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