Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/04/09

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Subject: [Leica] OT: car question for Torontonians
From: jonlarry4268 at gmail.com (Lawrence Rudner)
Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2011 22:34:30 -0400

Your guess is correct.  A winter damaged steel rim is substantially
cheaper to replace that a mag wheel.  Th esalt used on the streets pits
the mags to say nothing of the potholes in spring.

Lawrence
Montreal

On 4/9/11 9:36 PM, "Dante Stella" <dstella1 at ameritech.net> wrote:

>There may be a simple answer for this, but why am I seeing so many cars
>in Toronto with black steel wheels and no hubcaps?
>
>Snow tires/rims still on? High incidence of alloy wheel theft?
>
>Maybe cars are optioned differently in Canada, but I have seen a lot of
>this on vehicles usually available only with alloy wheels.
>
>Insights? My guess is snow tires/rims.
>
>Thanks
>Dante
>
>NO ARCHIVE
>
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In reply to: Message from dstella1 at ameritech.net (Dante Stella) ([Leica] OT: car question for Torontonians)