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Old Oct 31st, 2019, 11:36   #345
Clogs
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Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: Canterbury
Default Time to put on winter wheels again

Last week I put on the 4 winter steel wheels with winter tyres (plus a spare wheel on an old aluminium wheel - you have to have a winter wheel spare but so far after owning this car for 7˝ years I've never had to put on the spare). These tyres are now on their 4th winter, and have about 3˝mm of tread left, so this will be their last winter as once they're down to 3mm they'll not be much use in snow, but still OK in ice.

After a few days, I found that something was rubbing... the handbrake cable on the rear wheels was touching the slightly wider winter tyres, so had to put in a cable tie to keep it away from the tyre.

The back plate of the rear wheel is now corroding and is a bit fragmented. So long as nothing rubs against the disk, I'll leave it.

Last edited by Clogs; Oct 31st, 2019 at 11:40.
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