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st184 sillycar Forums Junkie Location: Melbourne Registered: June 2004	Re: Got Slicks? Fri, 18 February 2005 13:32 finney wrote on Fri, 18 February 2005 18:37 on a side note you had a good wheel allignment looking at the tread wear. but those tyres = stupidly worn... i'm guessing that you're a tightarse and didn't want to buy new tyres. 1/2 a millimetre difference in inner/outer treadwear after 75,000km with NO ROTATION is FaaaReakin good eh? Never had an alignment in 2years either - Go teh Toyota suspension design and quality! ! I KNOW the level of wear was beyond anything resembling funny or acceptable, but I was hanging out desperately for ANY sort of 17" wheel I liked to be available. I ended up having 3 different wheels on order, waiting, waiting, then to be told that stock can't be sourced in my stud pattern/offset. Refund, order next favourite wheel, repeat process. I know it's no excuse, but I only had 3 or 4 properly wet driving days since they became questionable, and you had BETTER BELIEVE i drove with safety margin to spare AND THEN SOME ! ! ! - I ordered new tyres the week I decided to buy another car and ditch (whoops - I mean sell) the SillyCar. Oh - I am too cheap to buy treaded tyres - for My go-Kart! The appreciation of what happens (and how to drive) when a vehicle aquaplanes goes THROUGH THE ROOF racing on slicks in the wet! - not that having said experience makes it O.k. for me to drive a road car with r00ted tyres. Helps tho . . . . Edit: Oh yeah - aquaplaning @ 70 was me speeding up from 50 until I got wheelspin, then slowing back to 50 - finding out what I had to work with when I was clear of traffic. That was in about 3cm of standing water in an absolute sh!tstorm of a downpour. [Updated on: Fri, 18 February 2005 13:36] [Report message to a moderator]

	Subject	Poster	Date
	Got Slicks?	st184 sillycar	Fri, 18 February 2005 03:34
	Re: Got Slicks?	Classique71	Fri, 18 February 2005 06:08
	Re: Got Slicks?	EnFlaMEd	Fri, 18 February 2005 06:10
	Re: Got Slicks?	ae86drift	Fri, 18 February 2005 06:10
	Re: Got Slicks?	Classique71	Fri, 18 February 2005 06:13
	Re: Got Slicks?	jonchai	Fri, 18 February 2005 06:29
	Re: Got Slicks?	finney	Fri, 18 February 2005 07:37
	Re: Got Slicks?	st184 sillycar	Fri, 18 February 2005 13:32
	Re: Got Slicks?	pro_ke	Fri, 18 February 2005 12:07
	Re: Got Slicks?	xolent	Fri, 18 February 2005 13:49
	Re: Got Slicks?	Bugman	Fri, 18 February 2005 20:16
	Re: Got Slicks?	st184 sillycar	Sat, 19 February 2005 01:27
	Re: Got Slicks?	truenosedan	Sat, 19 February 2005 03:55
	Re: Got Slicks?	Toobs	Sat, 19 February 2005 06:06
	Re: Got Slicks?	Toobs	Sat, 19 February 2005 06:19
	Re: Got Slicks?	MR 1JZ	Sat, 19 February 2005 07:47
	Re: Got Slicks?	finney	Sat, 19 February 2005 13:14
	Re: Got Slicks?	RobST162	Sat, 19 February 2005 13:36
	Re: Got Slicks?	st184 sillycar	Sun, 20 February 2005 08:24
	Re: Got Slicks?	Mookie	Mon, 21 February 2005 00:02
	Re: Got Slicks?	BlackMR2	Mon, 21 February 2005 07:04
	Re: Got Slicks?	Mookie	Tue, 22 February 2005 00:28
	Re: Got Slicks?	Johnny	Tue, 22 February 2005 10:48

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