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150Kmi??? Geeze Jim now thats a good tire and careful driving!! what percentage highway vs. city driving?? I dont think I can even approach that with all my highway driving but the new Kelleys are TW 320 so I should do pretty well this time. Keith ---------- > From: Jim Adney <jadney@vwtype3.org> > To: type3@vwtype3.org > Subject: [T3] My old Michelin tires > Date: Sunday, May 02, 1999 10:18 AM > > For the past few months I have been disturbed by the feeling that I > had a "lumpy" tire somewhere on my squareback. Even on the smoothest > roads, at low speed I could feel the car being rocked once per wheel > revolution, and at high speeds, this turned into a rather annoying > vibration that seemed to be coupled with a lack of directional > stability that was not normal. > > I was concerned that one of my Michelin XZX 165SR15s might have > developed a defect. > > Last weekend I finally jacked up the RR wheel, where the effect > seemed to be coming from, and spun that tire by hand as I watched it > for bumps, lumps, or squirming of the tread. There were none of > those, but I did notice that I had actually worn that tire down to > the steel belt in 2 places. So I threw on the spare to see if the > lumpiness also went away; it did. > > At first I was annoyed. I thought this was a rather new tire and that > I had gotten only about 50k miles out of it, Later however, I > realized that this was the second car this tire (and its LR mate) had > been on, and that m‚˜ tually gotten about 150k miles out of them. > The date code on those tires was from 1981. > > Yesterday, I had the worn out tire removed and replaced with the last > of 4 new XZXs that I bought in 93, when I was concerned that those > tires might be getting hard to come by. Now both rear tires are "new" > from that batch (one had been my spare, and the remaining 1981 tire > is now my spare. > > I guess the point I'm trying to make is that my only complaint about > these tires is that they last so long that it is hard to keep track > of how many miles you actually get out of them. 18 years, 150k+ > miles, not a bad showing. > > Jim > > - > ******************************* > Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org > Madison, Wisconsin, USA > ******************************* > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Unsubscribe? mailto:type3-request@vwtype3.org, Subject: unsubscribe