It is hard on the spider gears in the differential also. I saw a Honda hub carrier all 'wore out' due to significantly different diameter tires used on the front end..... for 10's of thousands of miles. Those little gears were just not designed for those kinds of rotations....
My favorite though is someone, usually a 'soccer Mom' or similar, bucking his / her way through a turn 'cause the grocerie- getter is stuck in 4WD. I have noticed that auto manufacturers are continuously 'dumbing down' 4WD into "AWD" and "Full Time 4WD" and various other incantations of [not real 4 WD] mechanisms. I just picked up a GMC Envoy but not after looking at a bunch of recent year 4WD vehicles that either were not really 4WD or were but did not have a low range.
Brian
Apparently those warnings on the sidewall are just nonsense to cover the backsides of the manufacture.
I had a co-worker in the 80s that had all 4 as "spares". He had a little Ford Fiesta. He could get the whole wheel and tire from the local junkyard for $10 each. Cheaper that a new tire and balance. The "regular" tires looked almost the same as the spares.
Here in Cleveland, for awhile there it was quite the styling statement in the urban areas to run spare temporary wheels and tires on all four corners. I had a '79 Fiesta Ghia, a German Ford, great car.
I think the 2000 focus was Ford's first truly "world car" as you could really go to any place in the world and get parts for it, as far as I know the first generation Fiesta was only made in Germany, sold around the world but only made in one place. The Focus was made in a few other places I think, not sure, ours was Mexico though. Then they redesigned it in 2007 for the U.S. and it was truly awful. The Fiesta is now touted as a "world car" too, and for the most part it is.
Because we are all bored and I really didn't feel like doing anything much at work today.
Because we are all bored and I really didn't feel like doing anything much at work today.
What is this 'work' you speak of?
But then again, they were also giving you a free Pinto if you bought a Lincoln at the time.I think that was only if you tried to talk them down in price. If you paid full list price for the Lincoln, they didn't make you take the Pinto.