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- From: jfarmer@cs.utk.edu (JOHN FARMER)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Radial tires on old car
- Date: 24 Jan 1993 22:27:50 -0500
- Organization: CS Department, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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- Summary: Manual says no radials
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- A quick question that has prob. been asked at least 1^2**6 times before...
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- One of the cars in my driveway is a '71 Plymouth Valiant "Scamp" (Had since
- new 136k miles...). The owners manual says that unless the car came orginally
- with radial tires, one or more suspension pieces need to be changed. Parts
- places don't have any idea about this (neither do most tire places in town...)
- and of course, the dealer don't keep parts/info for such an "old piece of junk"
- ("Why don't you _trade_ it in on a new xyxy??")
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- Seeing how it is increasingly hard to find decent bias-belted tires at a
- fair price, and moviated by the fact that I can count the threads in the
- belts on the front tires, I'm going to buy tires *real soon*.
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- Does anybody anything about what the owners manual was talking about? Should
- I just go ahead and get the radials and hope for the best? Should Harold kiss
- Sheila? (Sorry, cross-linked wrong newsgroup...)
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- Email or post, and thanks to you all.
-
- John T.
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- John T. Farmer, Jr. jfarmer@cs.utk.edu
- Full-time Daddy, Part-time Grad Student,
- Full-time wage slave, Wood butcher when I can.
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