> Hey there Ron, > These tires look great. I don't see mention > for offroad or mud use on these.... I need > something that is good in the mud and dirt.
The Hankook RA08 has an all-season highway tread pattern. It's primarily intended for good highway performance and handling, and a quiet highway ride. Since it is an M&S (mud & snow) tire, it will do better off-road or in mud than a summer highway tire would, but the bottom line is that it's not primarily intended for this use. The more aggressive all-terrain tread pattern that would make a tire work better off-road typically has an adverse effect on highway comfortability such as road noise (especially when coupled with the stiffer sidewall that a Bus or Vanagon requires). So no one tire will be the best both on and off road. Since most of my customers use their busses and Vanagons primarily on the highway (except for some Syncro owners, of course), for now my focus is on tires that are designed for highway performance/comfort. - Ron Salmon The Bus Depot, Inc. www.busdepot.com (215) 234-VWVW _____________________________________________ Toll-Free for Orders by PART # : 1-866-BUS-DEPOT |
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