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Shortly after I got the 2006, Chuck
Mallett donated a set of his beautiful wheels, The fact that the PS2s were not run-flats had me really concerned at first, considering the load I carry and how many miles I put on the car. As a precaution I filled up the left well in the trunk with a foot pump, a plug kit and (for the worst possible case scenario) a can of Fix-A-Flat. I only had them on the car for 2 weeks when a friend who was seeing them for the first time at a club outing noticed a nail in the left rear tire. Oh great! I kept one eye on the tire pressure readout for the 150 mile drive home, and the pressure didn't change. The next day I gingerly tried pulling the nail out. It was about an inch in from the sidewall and perpendicular to the tread. It was a shiny new ring nail (used for flooring; they have ribs on the shank to prevent them from working loose). I had it pulled out about 1.5 inches and could still feel the ribs ripping through the steel belt. At that point I just gently pushed it back in where it came from! I monitored the pressure frequently and just just drove it. The tire lost maybe 1 lb a month (and the nail survived 160 mph...). My concerns about not having run-flats gradually faded. 35,000 miles and 16 months later they were ready for replacement! Enter Amy Batt. I figured the guys at Corvette Racing could give me a contact at Michelin since the C6-R was now racing on them. Sure enough, they put me in touch with Amy at Michelin North America. She caused a new set of PS2s to magically appear on my front porch on October 29, 2007. Here's Amy Batt when I met her at the C5/C6
Bash in April of '08.
Thank you Amy and Michelin North America for
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