flat tires. :-(

Several months ago, I noticed that one of my front tires had a nail in it. It may or may not have been there when I bought the car, but I didn't see it for several months, and the tire was holding pressure.
When I finally saw the nail, I went to put on the spare. There was also a nail in that tire, and it was bald, so I got the dealer to replace both wheel & tire. And I got my front tire patched. (I put the new one on the car and used the patched tire as my spare.)

Today I was out running errands, driving over chunks of ice. I finally put my winter tires on the car over the weekend -- a set of used Borbet wheels with Dunlop M3 tires. I noticed several other cars on the road had flat tires. When I looked at the passenger side of my car, I noticed that the front tire was almost completely flat. So in the post office parking lot, in subzero temperatures, I got out the factory jack and put on my spare. Glad that I keep a breaker bar in the trunk, not just the crappy lug wrench that Audi gives us. Tire change took me about 5 minutes.

I took the flat to my local shop, and they told me that I drove on the tire just long enough to ruin it. I probably drove a total of 1 mile from my house, with 3 stops. So I don't know exactly when I got the flat.

Called up TireRack and ordered two new snow tires. Probably should have ordered four, but the other 3 are still in decent shape (even though I bought them used).
I'm glad that they are even still available this late in the year! And especially that the M3s have been discontinued.

-- P.

Sorry Peter! That's just bad luck! Maybe it means you should track the B7?

I really hate driving over chunks of ice...lost a tire that way driving back through a snowstorm in college. Those things can be as sharp as knives!

Hope 2009 brings you more good luck in the B7!

The next "mod" for the car will be a baby seat, sometime in middle of the year. :-)

-- Peter

Congrats!! All my best to you, Amanda, and the little Pelican-to-be!

Congrats!!!!!

So is it Pelican Pete Jr?

or Pelican Patty?

:-p

Made the same plunge.. Mine's due in May. :)

..my first one is due May next year...I'm hoping the leather is easy to clean! ;-)

Cheers,

Nick

My wife is reading the Baby Bargains book, and she's not up to the car seats section yet. :-)

I told her years ago that when we have a kid I want to get the Recaro seat. But it's for toddlers -- not newborns. She thought I was crazy, that I had already picked out a car seat, when we weren't even trying yet.

-- P.

There are so few surprises in life anymore. We're going to keep this one a surprise.

Y'know, we got the Audi Collection catalog in the mail a few weeks ago, and they have Audi onesies in the back. And I told Amanda that we should get those. She thought I was nutz. (The things cost about $1 apiece at a store. No reason to spend $25 on one.)

-- P.

Now you know why I haven't been ordering anything from you lately. It's not that I don't like you or anything...

All the best!
-- P.

Maybe we should rename the forum to Baby Factory! Must be summin in the water! Congrats to all!

..we're having a boy, didn't want to wait to find out! I'll have to turn the chip off for a while ;-)..

Hope all goes well!

Cheers,

Nick