A friend who used to off road drive quite a bit in Jeeps, told me that using a smaller rim width, gives a more rounded profile which is better in sand. Makes sense, since the old time beach buggies on Cape Cod used to run air plane tires. These were pure beach machines - be illegal now on the Cape Cod beaches. P.S. - loved that picture of your Baja! John LiMBO member www.LiMBObus.org
man o man.. you all have to think out of the box.. theres more to tires then just vanagons.. on my baja I had G78s (about a 29x8.5) on beetle rims.. mind you I had the "Marathon" rims 4.5" instead of 4" and were a fun squeeze, ( have my own vintage tire machine saves me $tons$) but ran them for years.. currently i'm running the other way a 225/75/15 on a 7" rim. but it's a 2ndry project and has very little $$ budget so I roll with what I can. for images of my baja's big tires on skinny rims, goto www.thesamba.com gallery and look up oh never mind heres the link http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/270407.jpg I'm sure someone will quip back in that they wouldn't do this or that regarding tires.. * |
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