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Re: [OM] Jeepless in Seattle

Subject: Re: [OM] Jeepless in Seattle
From: Jez Cunningham <jez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2016 13:40:08 +0100
Sounds fun! If they're also runflat you might find (as a friend of mine
did) that they're pretty firm. But what exactly do you mean by asymmetric?
Fronts and rears different?
Jez

On Saturday, 2 July 2016, ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> It’s a newer (not new) X1, Jez, an xDrive20i M Sport.  I paid little
> attention to the “M Sport” bit but it has firmer suspension and assymetric
> wheels.  It will tow our newly acquired caravan.
>
> It’s rather lovely . . .
>
> Chris
>
> > On 2 Jul 2016, at 12:15, Jez Cunningham <jez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> > Hold on ChrisB - I must have missed something - what's the acquisition
> that
> > takes those tyres!?
> >
> > On 2 July 2016 at 08:47, ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> >
> >> It might be that tyres in Europe are softer and more liable to break
> into
> >> particles, which is apparently the problem, but my Pirelli P7s last me
> 30k,
> >> and that’s on the crappy British roads.  Tyres will surely not last more
> >> miles than that on our Prius, would they?
> >>
> >> I do hope that my tyres last that long on my latest acquisition; the
> rear
> >> tyres are 255/40 18 which don’t come cheap.  I had not spotted the
> >> assymetric tyre fit before I bought the car . . .
> >>
> >> Chris
> >>
> >>> On 1 Jul 2016, at 21:01, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx <javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> 4. Tire wear. Not sure I buy this one. Tires meant for hybrids and EV
> >>> vehicles tend to be of a very hard compound, are pumped up to scary
> >>> air-pressures and provide as much tire life as anything else out
> >>> there. Sorry, but this one doesn't pass the smell test.
> >>
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