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Date:         Sun, 31 Oct 2004 10:28:30 -0800
Reply-To:     David Marshall <mailinglist@FASTFORWARD.CA>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         David Marshall <mailinglist@FASTFORWARD.CA>
Subject:      Re: Largest diameter wheel.
Comments: To: jimt <wetwesty@TACTICAL-BUS.INFO>
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Wheel or tire? I think you mean tire, or perhaps tire/wheel combo.

I have a customer with a 2WD Westfalia who purchased our 16x6.0" ET 30mm wheels and installed 215/75R16 tires and the fit was very good - this tires are just shy of 28" tall and it filled the fenders nice with no rubbing. Purpose for the larger tires was to get their RPMs down lower due to a TDI conversion in an Automatic. These are pretty narrow too - just slightly wider [1cm] than the 205/70R14 that we are recommended by VW. The did look a lot narrower than the 225/75R16s on my TriStar!

David Marshall

Fast Forward Automotive Inc. 4356 Quesnel-Hixon Road Quesnel BC Canada V2J 6Z3

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-----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf Of jimt Sent: October 31, 2004 10:07 AM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Largest diameter wheel.

I am just looking for the largest diameter wheel that can fit in the wheel well of a 2WD vanagon. And be used of course. Not into adaptors or anything else just the diameter or tire sizes and I will compute the diameter.

Height not treadwidth. Thanks

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