I do not know of what relevance this is, but . . . Yesterday I was at the ballfield talking to another baseball dad (a baseball dad is like a soccer mom with a set of balls and who thinks winning the game is more important than just having fun) when the subject of tires came up. We ended up looking at the ratings on our respective cars. He was surprised to see that the Hakka's on my Syncro were rated for 1850 lb. I was more surprised to find the Goodyear's on his full-sized Chevy 4X4 pickup were rated only for 1160 lb. max. This really puzzles me because they are the original tires. He had about 30 kMi. on them and they were wearing well with at least 1/4 inch remaining until the tread wear indicators would be reached. He did say that they spin easily on wet asphalt macadam. Why would such macho-looking tires be, in reality, so wimpy? And, could it be we Vanagon owners are too obsessive about the ratings of our tires? Rich |
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