Hey all
Owner of 707/2000 since August. Everything was fine with my car until yesterday. Was at school, come out and find that there was a puncture in the sidewall of my rear driver tire. Having no spare, I called around different friends till I found someone who shared the same bolt pattern as me. Unfortunately, the spare was only a 14 in tire, knowing that people commonly say that you cant run different sized rims/tires on 4wd vehicles, I was hesitant to even do so.
I made it about 5 of the 25 mile trip back to my house, when the spare went flat. Luckily just a few hundred feet from a friend's house. I gave up for the night at that point, as 9 pm miraculously became 12 am.
Enter today. I find a friend who has a full set of rims with 195/50/15s that he can give me. Lucky break, or so I thought at the time, as these rims led to a completely unrelated set of problems. Come four hours later, and it's now 10 o'clock pm. I'm finally getting the third of the four tires on, and drop the car to tighten the bolts. I hear a hiss come from out of the newly mounted tire, and nearly began to cry. Luckily (or unluckily), the tire popped off the bead, and was just leaking air from not beng sealed properly. To make matters worse, only three of the four directional tires I was now in possession of were mounted facing the proper direction (who does that?).
At this point, I am left with no remaining options. I had to drive the car home. I had two 195/60/15's in the front, and two 195/50/15's in the rear. The latest 40 miles of my car's life has been spent driving on mismatched tires... Did I do any significant damage to my awd system?
Owner of 707/2000 since August. Everything was fine with my car until yesterday. Was at school, come out and find that there was a puncture in the sidewall of my rear driver tire. Having no spare, I called around different friends till I found someone who shared the same bolt pattern as me. Unfortunately, the spare was only a 14 in tire, knowing that people commonly say that you cant run different sized rims/tires on 4wd vehicles, I was hesitant to even do so.
I made it about 5 of the 25 mile trip back to my house, when the spare went flat. Luckily just a few hundred feet from a friend's house. I gave up for the night at that point, as 9 pm miraculously became 12 am.
Enter today. I find a friend who has a full set of rims with 195/50/15s that he can give me. Lucky break, or so I thought at the time, as these rims led to a completely unrelated set of problems. Come four hours later, and it's now 10 o'clock pm. I'm finally getting the third of the four tires on, and drop the car to tighten the bolts. I hear a hiss come from out of the newly mounted tire, and nearly began to cry. Luckily (or unluckily), the tire popped off the bead, and was just leaking air from not beng sealed properly. To make matters worse, only three of the four directional tires I was now in possession of were mounted facing the proper direction (who does that?).
At this point, I am left with no remaining options. I had to drive the car home. I had two 195/60/15's in the front, and two 195/50/15's in the rear. The latest 40 miles of my car's life has been spent driving on mismatched tires... Did I do any significant damage to my awd system?