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Old 02-04-2019, 04:50 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by JST View Post
Am curious about which tires it had. My guess is that they were shitty partly because VW was trying to do whatever it could to reduce rolling resistance (and thus extend the eGolf's terribly short range). Fixing the tires might have made the range problem a lot worse.
This. They were low-friction, Helium-filled ( ) tires.

And correct. I was not about to invest in tires for a rental. If I had decided to keep it, I would have instantaneously tossed those POS tires out.
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