Date:         Thu, 16 Dec 2004 16:57:57 -0500
Reply-To:     Hans Achter <hansachter@HOTMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Hans Achter <hansachter@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Discount Tires (and Snows!) for Vanagons
Comments: To: The Bus Depot <vanagon@BUSDEPOT.COM>
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The Michelin Agilis isn't a snow tire as far as I know, so no wonder it was trounced in snow.
Would have been nice to test against premium snows like Hakkas or Gislaveds, how about even
Blizzaks...
-Hans
87 syncro vanaru (happily shod with Hakka C2s - they're the best!)

----- Original Message -----
From: "The Bus Depot" <vanagon@BUSDEPOT.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 4:01 PM
Subject: Re: Discount Tires (and Snows!) for Vanagons


> << The Vredesteins tires,  . . .   . . .  And their snow tire
> was just rated number one in a head-to-head comprehensive
> test in the German magazine ProMobil-Extra, where it trounced
> every other competitor including the much more expensive Michelin Agilis.

> Were the Hakkapelliitta's included in that tire test?


Unfortunately no, which is a shame because I have heard it's a very good
snow tire and would have been curious as to how it held up. The comparion
was between Michelin, Continental, Toyo, Dunlop, Semperit, and Uniroyal as I
recall.

- Ron Salmon
  The Bus Depot, Inc.
  www.busdepot.com
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