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2002WRXSTi

2002WRXSTi

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So on way home from Metuchen NJ which is around 18 or 20 miles from my house for a X-mas eve family function. In sleet going down 287 and something isn't feeling quite right :confused:

Pull through Somerville and something starts making ugly sounds so I pull over after crossing into Raritan to see this...

It was flat when I pulled over on the road to look at it. The bead popped when I pulled into a gas closed gas station to change it out to one of the Cobra-R rims that had front tires on em.

What ever way you wanna look at it the last thing I wanted to be doing at 12am Christmas morning would be changing a flat in the sleeting rain :eek2:
 
But your a pro and had it changed in minutes. And no one was hurt. Still stinks though. LOL
 
Right on the Mark said:
But your a pro and had it changed in minutes. And no one was hurt. Still stinks though. LOL
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At least I had 2 spare fronts in the trunk. Something like this happened with my '96 but I had big n littles on it so I wound up having to swap the front to the back to keep my Posi from having a fit.

That was real fun with the stupid lil factory jack :rolleyes:
 
2002WRXSTi said:
At least I had 2 spare fronts in the trunk. Something like this happened with my '96 but I had big n littles on it so I wound up having to swap the front to the back to keep my Posi from having a fit.

That was real fun with the stupid lil factory jack :rolleyes:
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I like those little factory scissor jacks; I've used them so much in the past they're pretty easy to work with IMHO. :shifty:

Better than those old-school bumper jacks - I always thought those sucked big time....
 
NetKeym said:
I like those little factory scissor jacks; I've used them so much in the past they're pretty easy to work with IMHO. :shifty:

Better than those old-school bumper jacks - I always thought those sucked big time....
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True but at the same time I would rather use my low clearance quick pump jack at home if at all possible. Then I would have had my rechargeable impact gun too so it would have been an even faster job!
 
a goodyear huh?
was always a fan of BFGoodrich myself.
nice that you were rolling with spares and tools though.

all the wheels i have that fit my car are on my car. i need to get some spares..
 
2002WRXSTi said:
True but at the same time I would rather use my low clearance quick pump jack at home if at all possible. Then I would have had my rechargeable impact gun too so it would have been an even faster job!
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Lol. Yeh, I bought a floor jack and had it in the trunk for a couple of weeks. I helped a couple ppl with flats and it's handy, but heavy to move around. No portable impact (although my cousin has one).
 
chris2523 said:
a goodyear huh?
was always a fan of BFGoodrich myself.
nice that you were rolling with spares and tools though.

all the wheels i have that fit my car are on my car. i need to get some spares..
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Guy that sold me the rims in a PepBoys parking lot had 2 with tires and the 9" rears just rims. So I had the fronts in my trunk cause I was going to have them dismounted so I could have all the rims sand blasted and Powder Coated. Then I got laid off so put it in the back of my mind however luckily I left em in the trunk :D

I just hit the guy up who sold them to me on FB and said get me some back tires for those rims cause 7" rims look pretty weak out back :(
 
they are a staggered set then?
7 front and 9 rear?

you need some 275s for the backs bro!

245/45-17 and 275/40-17 is a good matched set for front and rear. common sizes.

275/45 would be the stock ride height, but i've never seen that size for sale..
 
chris2523 said:
they are a staggered set then?
7 front and 9 rear?

you need some 275s for the backs bro!

245/45-17 and 275/40-17 is a good matched set for front and rear. common sizes.

275/45 would be the stock ride height, but i've never seen that size for sale..
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Yup and the fronts have a FOMOCO part number on em too. Did find these 2 GoodYear F1's in 275/40-17 $375 for both used 9/32 tread left but shipping is more then I wanna pay.
 
GS-D3s!

that's about half price on those. pretty good tires. its a good deal, but they still cost a pretty penny. and shipping them isn't fun either.
 
chris2523 said:
a goodyear huh?
was always a fan of BFGoodrich myself.
nice that you were rolling with spares and tools though.

all the wheels i have that fit my car are on my car. i need to get some spares..
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BF Goodrich for me too. Been rolling on mine for a while now and they have a 70,000 mile warranty on them. They'll dry rot before I ever wear them out but I take care of them so, I shouldn't see any dry rot.
 
God's good!!! Thank goodness you are ok and didn't have that thing fly off - He was watching over you tight tonight!

Whatcha wanna bet first thing outta Goodyears mouth is "well your platings is peeling and hard to keep a bead" - a tire place pulled that on me once, now when ever I get tires, I ask them to let me see each wheel (hey - how often do you get to see them, it's not like I can do that at home!) and have them annotate on the receipt the condition of each wheel. Like I said, a tire place tried that ONCE...

Let us know what they say
 
MsM8tress said:
God's good!!! Thank goodness you are ok and didn't have that thing fly off - He was watching over you tight tonight!

Whatcha wanna bet first thing outta Goodyears mouth is "well your platings is peeling and hard to keep a bead" - a tire place pulled that on me once, now when ever I get tires, I ask them to let me see each wheel (hey - how often do you get to see them, it's not like I can do that at home!) and have them annotate on the receipt the condition of each wheel. Like I said, a tire place tried that ONCE...

Let us know what they say
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Yeah problem is I don't like to let people work on my cars. Only thing I will let be done is alignment as I do not have the equipment to do it. These tires came on the car when I bought it, they held air all summer then the cold came and they loose air :shifty:

I will hit up my friends shop to use his no touch tire machine and scope it all on my own.

Worst thing I'm looking at now is with the Cobra-R rims on my car my brakes look so freaking Honda :eek:

So small on a 17" rim, I mean my WRK has 14.75" binders on the front and 13" on the back.
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Time to find some big rotors and do some machine work to make em fit the Mark :gr_devil:
 
I keep a small craftsman floor jack in the trunk just in case, But I also drive a town car, so I guess even a regular floor jack wouldn't take up too much room...
 
V-Tally said:
I keep a small craftsman floor jack in the trunk just in case, But I also drive a town car, so I guess even a regular floor jack wouldn't take up too much room...
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Somehow I got lucky enough to have 2 front rims and tires in my trunk at the time. Part that sucks is I didn't have my rechargeable impact gun with me. I used to be able to change a flat in record time ;)
 
V-Tally said:
I keep a small craftsman floor jack in the trunk just in case, But I also drive a town car, so I guess even a regular floor jack wouldn't take up too much room...
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A jack, impact gun and a guy to jump out with both in hand and change tire, wipe windshield, check oil and filler her up, then jump back in...a TC's trunk is big enough to be a trunk greese monkey apartment lol
 
Looks like CRAP!

So I look out my door this afternoon and I gotta say it looks like absolute crap! Not sure if it's the small front size, chipped flat black pain or just that it is 2 different style rims?
 
KStromberg said:
I don't understand why people do that. Wouldn't you want the same tire height at all four corners or at least within a close margin :confused:
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Wasn't a choice as more of what was available at the time. Stock fronts and tall tires on the rear but had a Trac-Loc so I have to take the same diameter fronts to the back. I actually had a spare at that time but wasn't gonna try to do that on the back.
 
2002WRXSTi said:
Wasn't a choice as more of what was available at the time. Stock fronts and tall tires on the rear but had a Trac-Loc so I have to take the same diameter fronts to the back. I actually had a spare at that time but wasn't gonna try to do that on the back.
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Yeah, totally agree there. Definitely match the diameters on the back. I guess I was always under the assumption that the traction control on our cars gets temperamental when different tire heights are used on the front compared to the back when beyond a certain percentage, apart from the whole issue with mismatched tires on the back of a RWD car.

If the tire height of your spare matches the height of all 4 tires you are running, it doesn't matter where you put the spare for temporary use. I have found that a full size spare works well in this case. My current spare tire is an old drag radial. Kind of stupid LOL, but I can put it on any corner of the car if I get a flat and the tire height is only off by 2 tenths of an inch. It'll look wacky as hell on the way to the tires shop but it'll get the job done and I don't have to mess around with swapping tires around. :)

Now IF that 2 tenths of an inch between both rear tire heights is enough to mess up my differential if it happens to be a rear tire that goes flat, I will surely change my ways! I guess I haven't had the chance to test out that theory but I would imagine it would have to be more significant than that.
 
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