I am sure many of you have heard the phrase it never rains but it pours? That phrase was never truer than a few months ago when as tail end Charlie I went to get my new Continental ExtremeSport tires fitted to my Forgeline GA1R monoblock wheels on Project 3ThirtyFive halfway through the summer. It was something I was looking forward to as this would be the first time that I would have run the new Contintental ExtremeContact Sport Having previously run two sets of the previous model, the ExtremeContact DW and was super happy with them in both dry and wet conditions. I chose to go to the newly opened tire shop in Oakville, Adrena Garage having known the owners from their previous place of employment. Everything went well and the car looked well on its new rubber. Now this is where funny things started happening. The next weekend I was heading out to deliver 38
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some Racepak datalogging equipment to a customer when a previously unheard noise appeared upon braking at the first intersection. And what was that: a puff of smoke and smell of rubber? Nah, I must have imagined it. Not so, the noise, the smoke and the smell appeared the next time I came to a full stop. At that point I decided that a 3-hour trip one
Continental Extreme DW tires on Forgeline GA1R wheels with Alloygator rim protection
