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Re: Poor handling at high speed: update Posted by Snowmobile [Email]  (#686)  [Profile/Gallery]
(more from Snowmobile) on Fri, 28 Dec 2012 13:41:16
In Reply to: Poor handling at high speed: update, Siegfried, Fri, 28 Dec 2012 07:28:31 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
that's good to hear. Are your rims steel or alloy? I had my hakka4s remounted from steel to alloys and inflated etc way back in september on a hot day... 3 months later when I went to put them on the car, 3 were flat... I attributed it to the temperature change... but, then 1 week later, 1 of the wheels went completely flat and another 2 were a bit soft... took the flat one off to take to the tire shop and topped off the others... my spare wheel is a full size hakka 1 on a steel wheel... but, they're directional! and oops, the flat one was on the wrong side... so I'm running with 1 backwards pointing hakka on the back until I get a chance to put the now repaired wheel back on (I hear you on the winter repairs - brrr)...
anyway, 2 things:
1) handling with the 1 backwards old different hakka on the back (usually want better tires on the back) was just fine. Got a whole whack of snow this week, and for the most part, the car drove great... plowed right through everything... actually, in many respects, better than the 9-5 with brand new hakkaR's... holy crap c900's are great in snow... handling was not impacted on dry pavement either... so my point, is the car is apparently pretty tolerant to that kind of thing (putting wheels on backwards etc)...
2) alloy rims can leak. that was the problem with the flat one. corrosion on the rim created a bad seal and it leaked (confirmed in the dunk tank)... I expect I will be taking 2 more wheels in for cleanup sometime this winter also...
anyway, glad to hear your problems turned out to be relatively easy!
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