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Old 11-19-2010, 01:14 PM   #3 (permalink)
redyaris
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My nickels' worth of a two bit opinion is that you are right about the tire and the warnings. The design objective is to reduce the space required for the spare without puting the driver at risk when using the spare. The warning is for people who want to know as little as posible about thier stuff. The alternative to this consise warning lable would be a treatise on the physics of tires, that few would read, and even fewer would understand. I have thought about doing a test run on 4 of these temporary spares to see how they affect FE, but have not done so yet.
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