Date:         Wed, 31 Jan 2001 00:53:52 EST
Reply-To:     SyncroHead@AOL.COM
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Jim Davis <SyncroHead@AOL.COM>
Subject:      Re: [Syncro] What I Found About Tire Height Calculations
Comments: To: derekdrew@rcn.com, Syncro@yahoogroups.com
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In a message dated 1/30/01 9:12:09 PM Pacific Standard Time,
derekdrew@rcn.com writes:


> For the record and the benefit of the archives, the Michelin caller said
> the direct Michelin replacement for the MXL tire that was stock on the
> Vanagon is the MXT, which is a reinforced passenger car tire with 836
> revolutions per mile. (Hey!, that's even slower!--Derek) He said you could
> order these replacements by ordering Michelin part number 73568 and that
> they had them in stock, but not a huge number of them.
>
> For the uninitiated, the list wisdom is not to buy any passenger car tires
> anymore, but at replacement time to try to shoot for light truck tires. You
> can often tell these because they go up to 50psi. If your new proposed tire
> goes up to, say, 40psi this is a hint that you may be buying the wrong
> tire. So in any case, the advice of the list and my personal experience
> would suggest that one not purchase these MXTs offered as replacements for
> the discontinued MXLs.
>
Why do you conclude this about the MXTs?  I wouldn't use them for an off-road
Syncro, but for the vast majority of 2WD van and Syncro staying on the
highway, where do you find them defiecient?

Jim

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