[DML] Re: Tires

["Harold" <hmcelraft@xxxxxxx>]

Welmoed

Have you checked the alignment lately? On wet roads, in my experience, if the alignment is out very much, you will have a difficult time with control.

Harold McElraft - 3354

--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, gmfm1@... wrote:
>
> I'm sorry that you don't like your Cooper Tires. Are they Cobra's? I was in one of the heaviest downpours that I was ever in this past summer in my Delorean coming home from DMA's Summer Fun Run and I was doing the speed limit and had absolutely no problem with driving the car.
> Thanks,
> Gary Masie
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Welmoed 
> Date: Monday, October 29, 2012 4:52 pm
> Subject: [DML] Re: Tires
> To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> > I have those Cooper Cobras front and rear in the correct sizes.
> > Bought them in the US approx 4 years ago.
> > Have to say that the do not impress me on wet roads.
> > In rain, especially heavy rain one has to decrease the speed to 
> > often less than 50 MpH and even them the tail likes to wag when 
> > finding puddles of water.
> > On dry roads they behave better.
> > 
> > My next set of tires probably won't be Coopers.
> > Don't know yet what they will be as it becomes harder to get the 
> > correct sizes.
> > 
> > Welmoed.
> 
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