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Old 12-16-2012, 11:48 PM   #26 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by HyperMileQC View Post
Yeah, but it does not stay in place really long.
It stayed till I could not stand the out of balance wheel any more and cleaned it out myself.

a good bit of the mileage loss was backing out of my 75 foot long 10 foot up driveway with a foot (closer to 1.5) of snow in a front wheel drive car. It takes an interesting combination of the ballerina's finesse wrapped in the subtly of all the fire and brimstone a 2L ford can muster.
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