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Old 02-17-2016, 09:42 AM   #5
steved0x
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It must be nice to be able to afford to throw tires away halfway through their life!
I agree, to start this pattern it seems like you throw away 2 tires with a lot of potential useful life. Iwondered how a person ever gets to a "starting" state for this pattern - if you started with 4 new tires, it seems like they would all wear out at around the same time...

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Another thing to consider is that as the tires wear, the diameter gets smaller. If you mount the new tires on one side of the car, then the differential will have to work all the time because the tires aren't the same circumference. It's not a large difference, but it's something to avoid.
I didn't think about that either... If you stack two of my tires together you can see the difference. it is small but you can see it...

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