At 12:47pm on December 16, 2008, Bruce Fromoz said…: Terrific Dan,
What did you end up doing?
Do you have Conti's all around, or did you switch brands?
Thanks in advance.

At 4:43am on December 16, 2008, Ian Pellant said…: Hi Dan,
There are a lot of little differences between the USA fortwo and the "rest of the world".
The Australian tyre label is pretty much the international one. Listing the skinny wheels and tyres for us is irrelevant... we don't get them... all we get is the fat wheels on the pulse; no pure or passion.

Pulse is the performance model; pure is the basic economy model and the passion is the luxury version of the pure. Some think the pulse is a cheap passion. It's not. Pures and passions get the same skinny tyres. The pulse gets the fatter ones. Since Australia is more like the USA than Europe is, I still can't support Penske's not importing the pulse. Turbo is another argument.

At 3:28am on December 15, 2008, Ian Pellant said…: Hi Dan,

No worries... The owners manual suggests a winter pressure a bit higher at 2.0 bar front and 2..5 bar rear... that's 29 psi front; 36 psi rear. Anything over 30 psi front in 175/55 is likely to be a bit hard and skittery on summer bitumen. I always set tyre pressures in the morning, in the garage, before driving... figuring that to be "cold tyre pressure".

Since Australia is mostly above freezing, they only show the summer pressures on the label... then go see the owners manual. Which also advises that the tyres may not develop full grip until a few hundred kilometres. Mine (smart OEM Continentals) seem to have developed full grip after 3,000 km (2,000 miles) and look like having a long life.

Cheers, Ian

At 9:40pm on December 14, 2008, Ian Pellant said…: Hi Dan,

I love the pulse wheels too! I am running 1.8 bar (26 psi) front and 2.2 bar (32psi) rear. Mine lost 2 psi all round over the first two months. Very easy to check when and inflate cold using a bicycle stirrup pump with digital pressure gauge. Car when delivered had 36 psi all round. Way too hard.

At 3:49pm on December 9, 2008, Nikolay Rocafuerte said…: Hey man thanks a lot b ro 850 is a little to pricy for me unfortanetly..I I was look around 500 to 600 for rims not so much but thank u is there anything else u have ?

At 3:13pm on December 8, 2008, Nikolay Rocafuerte said…: thats awesome thank u finnally some one to help me well i have my system all set up thats not the prob i am looking for rims i even had adpaters made for me but i dont think its that safe how much r u selling the stock rims ?

At 12:31am on November 18, 2008, 451 Kahn said…: http://www.fq101.co.uk/451foglamps.asp
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At 10:07pm on November 11, 2008, 451 Kahn said…: Hi
Did you install your lights?

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