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Re: E36 M3 Tire Pressures

Richard, the MT article on tire inflation pressures has no details re.
whether the testers accounted for tire and pavement warmup, or took into
account tire wear, etc, which would argue in favor of your skepticism of
MT as a source of automotive information.

On 8 January 1995 Richard Welty wrote 
> 
> i've omitted the actual numbers; i have a question based on my
> general lack of respect for MT as a source of automotive
> information: to wit, did they discuss whether they had done
> anything about tire & pavement warmup?  in other words,
> how controlled were the conditions for this test; did they account
> for changes in tire temperatures as the weather changes and
> as time goes by and heat in tires go up?  how long did they run
> (in the course of a full day of hard driving, the wear on a tire
> makes a significant contribution to the behaviour of said tire.)
  (text deleted)


Guillermo S. Christensen
Mclean, Virginia
'93 BMW 325is
'84 Audi 4000S Quattro