A4 tyres
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Re: A4 tyres
On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 09:23:52 +0000, Glenn Richards
<glenn@squirrelsolutions.co.uk> wrote:
>Glenn Richards wrote:
>
>> this classic holiday feast.
>
>Actually no I didn't. I've seen a number of these, someone is forging
>posts from myself and a number of other posters to alt.autos.audi with a
>large amount of crossposting.
>
>Headers saved for reference...
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<glenn@squirrelsolutions.co.uk> wrote:
>Glenn Richards wrote:
>
>> this classic holiday feast.
>
>Actually no I didn't. I've seen a number of these, someone is forging
>posts from myself and a number of other posters to alt.autos.audi with a
>large amount of crossposting.
>
>Headers saved for reference...
That was a forged post by a USENET vandal known as "hipcrime". Dippy
hates USENET, and especially it hates news.admin.net-abuse.email, so
it wrote a piece of abuseware known as "newsagent" that allows it to
forge supercede posts and force follow-ups to flood NANAE with
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Re: A4 tyres
On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 09:23:52 +0000, Glenn Richards
<glenn@squirrelsolutions.co.uk> wrote:
>Glenn Richards wrote:
>
>> this classic holiday feast.
>
>Actually no I didn't. I've seen a number of these, someone is forging
>posts from myself and a number of other posters to alt.autos.audi with a
>large amount of crossposting.
>
>Headers saved for reference...
That was a forged post by a USENET vandal known as "hipcrime". Dippy
hates USENET, and especially it hates news.admin.net-abuse.email, so
it wrote a piece of abuseware known as "newsagent" that allows it to
forge supercede posts and force follow-ups to flood NANAE with
thousands of "WTF" posts such as yours.
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forged posts, and filter on the commonly identifiable elements. Lately
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<glenn@squirrelsolutions.co.uk> wrote:
>Glenn Richards wrote:
>
>> this classic holiday feast.
>
>Actually no I didn't. I've seen a number of these, someone is forging
>posts from myself and a number of other posters to alt.autos.audi with a
>large amount of crossposting.
>
>Headers saved for reference...
That was a forged post by a USENET vandal known as "hipcrime". Dippy
hates USENET, and especially it hates news.admin.net-abuse.email, so
it wrote a piece of abuseware known as "newsagent" that allows it to
forge supercede posts and force follow-ups to flood NANAE with
thousands of "WTF" posts such as yours.
What to do about it is simple. First, look at the headers of a few
forged posts, and filter on the commonly identifiable elements. Lately
dipy's been abusing news servers in northern Europe. If you subscribe
to a service such as Supernews, the filtering is already done for you.
Second, if you feel you NUST reply to a dippyspew post, look very
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Re: A4 tyres
On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 09:23:52 +0000, Glenn Richards
<glenn@squirrelsolutions.co.uk> wrote:
>Glenn Richards wrote:
>
>> this classic holiday feast.
>
>Actually no I didn't. I've seen a number of these, someone is forging
>posts from myself and a number of other posters to alt.autos.audi with a
>large amount of crossposting.
>
>Headers saved for reference...
That was a forged post by a USENET vandal known as "hipcrime". Dippy
hates USENET, and especially it hates news.admin.net-abuse.email, so
it wrote a piece of abuseware known as "newsagent" that allows it to
forge supercede posts and force follow-ups to flood NANAE with
thousands of "WTF" posts such as yours.
What to do about it is simple. First, look at the headers of a few
forged posts, and filter on the commonly identifiable elements. Lately
dipy's been abusing news servers in northern Europe. If you subscribe
to a service such as Supernews, the filtering is already done for you.
Second, if you feel you NUST reply to a dippyspew post, look very
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<glenn@squirrelsolutions.co.uk> wrote:
>Glenn Richards wrote:
>
>> this classic holiday feast.
>
>Actually no I didn't. I've seen a number of these, someone is forging
>posts from myself and a number of other posters to alt.autos.audi with a
>large amount of crossposting.
>
>Headers saved for reference...
That was a forged post by a USENET vandal known as "hipcrime". Dippy
hates USENET, and especially it hates news.admin.net-abuse.email, so
it wrote a piece of abuseware known as "newsagent" that allows it to
forge supercede posts and force follow-ups to flood NANAE with
thousands of "WTF" posts such as yours.
What to do about it is simple. First, look at the headers of a few
forged posts, and filter on the commonly identifiable elements. Lately
dipy's been abusing news servers in northern Europe. If you subscribe
to a service such as Supernews, the filtering is already done for you.
Second, if you feel you NUST reply to a dippyspew post, look very
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Re: A4 tyres
"Pete" <escape2music@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Dan Koren" wrote
>
> > Your info is out of date.
>
> Oh gimme a break. I was just trying to make a point that the original
> poster who has a B6 A4 (I think) may want to consider a certain size
> which is OK by the manufacturer, in case he had any concerns.
>
>
> > That was true of pre-2003
> > A4's.
> >
> > All current (and 2003-2004)
> > A4's come with 17" rims.
>
> As an option, yes. 15" and 16" stock.
>
> http://www.audiworld.com/model/a4/03/03a4sedan.pdf
> http://www.audiworld.com/model/a4/04/04a4sedan1_8.pdf
> http://www.audiworld.com/model/a4/04/04a4sedan3_0.pdf
>
>
You made my point exactly.
All the above links are to Audi's world site,
not to the US site -- that is www.audiusa.com.
Also note that the fact that a car will allow
a certain rim/wheel size does not mean it will
perform or handle well with that wheel.
dk
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Re: A4 tyres
"Pete" <escape2music@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:cqmcqr$q5v$1@news.onet.pl...
>
> "Dan Koren" wrote
>
> > Your info is out of date.
>
> Oh gimme a break. I was just trying to make a point that the original
> poster who has a B6 A4 (I think) may want to consider a certain size
> which is OK by the manufacturer, in case he had any concerns.
>
>
> > That was true of pre-2003
> > A4's.
> >
> > All current (and 2003-2004)
> > A4's come with 17" rims.
>
> As an option, yes. 15" and 16" stock.
>
> http://www.audiworld.com/model/a4/03/03a4sedan.pdf
> http://www.audiworld.com/model/a4/04/04a4sedan1_8.pdf
> http://www.audiworld.com/model/a4/04/04a4sedan3_0.pdf
>
>
You made my point exactly.
All the above links are to Audi's world site,
not to the US site -- that is www.audiusa.com.
Also note that the fact that a car will allow
a certain rim/wheel size does not mean it will
perform or handle well with that wheel.
dk
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Re: A4 tyres
"Pete" <escape2music@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:cqmcqr$q5v$1@news.onet.pl...
>
> "Dan Koren" wrote
>
> > Your info is out of date.
>
> Oh gimme a break. I was just trying to make a point that the original
> poster who has a B6 A4 (I think) may want to consider a certain size
> which is OK by the manufacturer, in case he had any concerns.
>
>
> > That was true of pre-2003
> > A4's.
> >
> > All current (and 2003-2004)
> > A4's come with 17" rims.
>
> As an option, yes. 15" and 16" stock.
>
> http://www.audiworld.com/model/a4/03/03a4sedan.pdf
> http://www.audiworld.com/model/a4/04/04a4sedan1_8.pdf
> http://www.audiworld.com/model/a4/04/04a4sedan3_0.pdf
>
>
You made my point exactly.
All the above links are to Audi's world site,
not to the US site -- that is www.audiusa.com.
Also note that the fact that a car will allow
a certain rim/wheel size does not mean it will
perform or handle well with that wheel.
dk
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Re: A4 tyres
"Dan Koren"
> You made my point exactly.
>
> All the above links are to Audi's world site,
> not to the US site -- that is www.audiusa.com
Audiworld is a US-centered site and the specs they publish are for
US-based models. Besides, www.audiusa.com shows the same info: 16"
stock and 17" optional for 2004.
> Also note that the fact that a car will allow
> a certain rim/wheel size does not mean it will
> perform or handle well with that wheel.
That's true, but the definition of "handling" varies depending on the
individual. For some it's firm/crisp steering response; for others it's
ride comfort. We don't know what the original poster's priorities are.
If he wants the former, he should buy himself 19" rims with 235/35/19
tires. If he wants the latter - he should stick with what he has or
even downgrade to 15s.
Cheers,
Pete
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Re: A4 tyres
"Dan Koren"
> You made my point exactly.
>
> All the above links are to Audi's world site,
> not to the US site -- that is www.audiusa.com
Audiworld is a US-centered site and the specs they publish are for
US-based models. Besides, www.audiusa.com shows the same info: 16"
stock and 17" optional for 2004.
> Also note that the fact that a car will allow
> a certain rim/wheel size does not mean it will
> perform or handle well with that wheel.
That's true, but the definition of "handling" varies depending on the
individual. For some it's firm/crisp steering response; for others it's
ride comfort. We don't know what the original poster's priorities are.
If he wants the former, he should buy himself 19" rims with 235/35/19
tires. If he wants the latter - he should stick with what he has or
even downgrade to 15s.
Cheers,
Pete
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Re: A4 tyres
"Dan Koren"
> You made my point exactly.
>
> All the above links are to Audi's world site,
> not to the US site -- that is www.audiusa.com
Audiworld is a US-centered site and the specs they publish are for
US-based models. Besides, www.audiusa.com shows the same info: 16"
stock and 17" optional for 2004.
> Also note that the fact that a car will allow
> a certain rim/wheel size does not mean it will
> perform or handle well with that wheel.
That's true, but the definition of "handling" varies depending on the
individual. For some it's firm/crisp steering response; for others it's
ride comfort. We don't know what the original poster's priorities are.
If he wants the former, he should buy himself 19" rims with 235/35/19
tires. If he wants the latter - he should stick with what he has or
even downgrade to 15s.
Cheers,
Pete
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Re: A4 tyres
Pete wrote:
> Audiworld is a US-centered site and the specs they publish are for
> US-based models. Besides, www.audiusa.com shows the same info: 16"
> stock and 17" optional for 2004.
I'm based in the UK - stock wheels are 16".
>> Also note that the fact that a car will allow a certain rim/wheel
>> size does not mean it will perform or handle well with that wheel.
> That's true, but the definition of "handling" varies depending on the
> individual. For some it's firm/crisp steering response; for others
> it's ride comfort. We don't know what the original poster's
> priorities are. If he wants the former, he should buy himself 19"
> rims with 235/35/19 tires. If he wants the latter - he should stick
> with what he has or even downgrade to 15s.
Basically I want to be able to go round corners faster without the back
end starting to twitch. On a previous car (MkIII Fiesta) I upgraded
165/65R13s on steel rims to 185/50R14s on alloys, the difference was
quite remarkable. That car only had 60bhp-ish, and after the upgrade
didn't have enough power to slide round a corner!
The theory goes that the more rubber in contact with the tarmac the
better. As all the tyres on my A4 (2001 model) will need replacing in
about 5,000 miles, I wanted to know if it was possible to fit a 225/50
width tyre on the existing rims (currently 205/55). According to my
calculations, dropping to a 50 profile on the 225 will keep the sidewall
height, circumference etc the same, so the ride comfort (and the speedo
reading!) should stay the same, but with a bit more lateral grip round
corners.
--
Glenn Richards Tel: (01453) 845735
Squirrel Solutions http://www.squirrelsolutions.co.uk/
IT consultancy, hardware and software support, broadband installation
> Audiworld is a US-centered site and the specs they publish are for
> US-based models. Besides, www.audiusa.com shows the same info: 16"
> stock and 17" optional for 2004.
I'm based in the UK - stock wheels are 16".
>> Also note that the fact that a car will allow a certain rim/wheel
>> size does not mean it will perform or handle well with that wheel.
> That's true, but the definition of "handling" varies depending on the
> individual. For some it's firm/crisp steering response; for others
> it's ride comfort. We don't know what the original poster's
> priorities are. If he wants the former, he should buy himself 19"
> rims with 235/35/19 tires. If he wants the latter - he should stick
> with what he has or even downgrade to 15s.
Basically I want to be able to go round corners faster without the back
end starting to twitch. On a previous car (MkIII Fiesta) I upgraded
165/65R13s on steel rims to 185/50R14s on alloys, the difference was
quite remarkable. That car only had 60bhp-ish, and after the upgrade
didn't have enough power to slide round a corner!
The theory goes that the more rubber in contact with the tarmac the
better. As all the tyres on my A4 (2001 model) will need replacing in
about 5,000 miles, I wanted to know if it was possible to fit a 225/50
width tyre on the existing rims (currently 205/55). According to my
calculations, dropping to a 50 profile on the 225 will keep the sidewall
height, circumference etc the same, so the ride comfort (and the speedo
reading!) should stay the same, but with a bit more lateral grip round
corners.
--
Glenn Richards Tel: (01453) 845735
Squirrel Solutions http://www.squirrelsolutions.co.uk/
IT consultancy, hardware and software support, broadband installation
