Date:         Tue, 22 Mar 2005 12:29:42 -0500
Reply-To:     The Bus Depot <vanagon@BUSDEPOT.COM>
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From:         The Bus Depot <vanagon@BUSDEPOT.COM>
Subject:      Re: audi wheels on vanagon
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> so here you have a '91 Vanagon carat that weighs 3600 with no
> load or passengers and you have a ('86-'91) audi quattro that
> weighs 3600 with no load or passengers.
>
> numbers dont lie..


No, but this is unladen weight. Again, a fully-laden Vanagon may weigh much
more than a fully-laden Audi Quattro, because it can carry a heck of a lot
more cargo.  Also, if an empty Audi Carat weighs the same as an empty Audi
Quattro, then an empty Westy or Syncro will weigh more than the Audi. This
does not prove that Audi wheels are necessarily unsafe on a Vanagon (it is
impossible to say for sure, since we do not know precisely what the maximum
capacity of the Audi wheels is) ... but the numbers you cite certainly do
not prove that they are safe either.

- Ron Salmon
  The Bus Depot, Inc.
  www.busdepot.com
  (215)  234-VWVW

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