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Space Saver Spare V70-XC70 2002

posted by  MadeInJapan on  Thu Jan 19 14:43 CST 2006
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Ken,
With your early model XC, I would be very careful about running any spare that is not a very close tread depth with your viscous coupling. In fact, if I owned your car, I would be tempted the next time I bought new tires to buy a new one for the spare wheel well too and when I rotated my tires (rotating early, and often), rotate in and out the spare. This would assure very close depth of tread in the case you needed to use your spare like we did when we were on a pretty long trip away from home. Anyway, just my $.02. A donut spare on an early model XC spells sure disaster for the AWD transmission if used for any length of time at all, so why did Volvo do this?
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1998 S70 T5 Emarald Green Metallic, 2004 V70 2.5T Ruby Red, Previous Owner of Black '94 850 Turbo Wagon. My cars have been running so well lately they've got me worried.






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