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Subject:Re: do front Syncro tires wear faster than rear?
From:Stuart MacMillan
Date:Thu, 5 Apr 2001 08:11:44 -0700

Front tires always wear faster because they do the steering, and front
end alignment, usually infrequently checked, is also critical to wear.
Front wheel drive or all wheel drive accelerates this wear as well.

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Stuart MacMillan
Seattle

'84 Vanagon Westfalia w/2.1
'65 MGB (Daily driver since 1969)
'74 MGB GT (Restoring sloooowly)

Personal mechanic for:
'70 MGB GT (Daughter's)

Assisting on Restoration (and spending OPM):
'72 MGB GT (Was daughter's, now son's)
'64 MGB (Son's)

Stripped and gone but their parts live on:
'68 MGB, '73 MGB, '67 MGB GT

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