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Tire sidewall peel, safe to use? 900

posted by  masupra on  Fri Dec 2 16:21 CST 2005
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Tonight while checking over the snow tires, I found one tire has a 'peel' on the sidewall. I have no idea when that happened, but must be from last winter's driving. It did not leak air, and it's not deep enough to show anything below the black rubber layer. Would it be safe to drive on it?
Or is it a very bad idea to have only two snow tires on the rear, and two all-season on the front -- I meant driving in snow. What about having three snow tires and one all-season? What would be a good source for cheap Gislaved II tires?
Also, the snow tires are steel rims, and my summer tires are alloy rims. I used the same set of lug nuts last winter. Today I suddenly have a thought that steel rims and alloy rims should use different lug nuts?
Sorry for asking a bunch of stupid quesitons, I am feeling quite slow tonight for some reason. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
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1994 944NA 100K miles






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