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Rhythm Thief
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Joined: March 10th, 2010, 12:37 am
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Location: Alone in my polytunnel with my pitiful competition onions
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 Re: 145 Tyres hitting swing arms I once aquaplaned my Acadiane on 145s, something the "rubber razor blade" 125s are not especially prone to.
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samfieldhouse
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Joined: February 11th, 2009, 12:32 am
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Location: Chichester, West Sussex
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Re: 145 Tyres hitting swing arms there's a really good article in a book I have about Citroen's reasoning for the 'skinny' tyres, I might scan it actually.
I don't really have much choice, I only have 145s so that's what will have to go on!
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| March 26th, 2011, 10:11 pm |
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Devils Advocate
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Joined: July 26th, 2009, 3:36 pm
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Re: 145 Tyres hitting swing arms Good points, peeps - thank you. Russ, I guess the already prettybludyheavy parking steering will be a sight worse... 
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| March 27th, 2011, 3:16 pm |
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Re: 145 Tyres hitting swing arms Devils Advocate wrote: I guess the already prettybludyheavy parking steering will be a sight worse... Eh? I'd have a good look at your car if the steering is that heavy!
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| March 27th, 2011, 4:13 pm |
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Jonathan
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Joined: January 1st, 2009, 7:37 pm
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Location: Disunited Kingdom
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Re: 145 Tyres hitting swing arms Got lovely, light steering on my 2CV, but it does have the obvious later steering-rack with lower ratio, the earlier quillery steering-wheel and only runs on 135 XZs.
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Devils Advocate
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Joined: July 26th, 2009, 3:36 pm
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Re: 145 Tyres hitting swing arms Oops, confusion reigns in the Dev's brain - it's been a few months since I've driven the 2CV as it needs a restore; I got mixed up - my steering comments were a throw-back to my Marlin. The 2CV felt power-assisted in comparison. (Still quite heavy tho'...  )
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| March 27th, 2011, 9:58 pm |
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Joolz
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Joined: January 5th, 2009, 5:48 am
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Re: 145 Tyres hitting swing arms Devils Advocate wrote: (Still quite heavy tho'... ) Only if you've borrowed your arms from a small girl, Now man up! 
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ken
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Joined: March 6th, 2009, 1:40 am
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Re: 145 Tyres hitting swing arms French paper-pushing at its best? When I was advertising Furniss Engineering's products in France, almost every enquiry received mentioned 'homologation' or approval from the 'Service des Mines'. I wonder if those same organisations considered and approved the use of those pop-riveted floor (& chassis rot hiding) repair panels...  ken p.s. Just checked in Revue Technique, for 'roues et pneus' and 135 section tyres were a standard fitting for Acadianes and Mehari, or 'en option' for any A series model.  602 wrote: They are very fussy about a vehicle having the correct specification tyre on. When 125's became difficult to get my local CT station took advice from the DRIRE [people who make and enforce the rules] as to whether he could pass my car on 135's. They could and now do.
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| March 27th, 2011, 11:25 pm |
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602
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Joined: July 21st, 2010, 7:12 pm
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Location: Chatenet, France
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Re: 145 Tyres hitting swing arms ken wrote: French paper-pushing at its best?
Just a simple example Ken, the best I have come across is If you import a car here, import tax is charged if it is six months old or less. So you would think that a 1955 car would be obviously out of the frame for said tax... No you need a certificate that say you don't need a certificate of import duty paid.
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Devils Advocate
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Joined: July 26th, 2009, 3:36 pm
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Re: 145 Tyres hitting swing arms Joolz wrote: Only if you've borrowed your arms from a small girl, Now man up! Don't tease - you'll make me cry  .
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