Date:         Thu, 7 Dec 2006 05:48:28 -0800
Reply-To:     Robert Fisher <refisher@MCHSI.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Robert Fisher <refisher@MCHSI.COM>
Subject:      Re: Vanagon OEM tire report Yes,
              I am still using a 22 year old tire
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Yeah well I guess I should've sat down on the shoulder of the road, put the
pieces back together and written all that down so that years later I could
regurgitate all that irrelevant garbage on the vanagon list.
Spare me the BS man. That's just weak.

R

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alistair Bell" <albell@UVIC.CA>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 9:05 PM
Subject: Re: Vanagon OEM tire report Yes, I am still using a 22 year old
tire


> love those "scientific" reports.
>
> no mention of actual tire size, rating, model.
>
> Alistair
>
>
> On 6-Dec-06, at 5:58 PM, Robert Fisher wrote:
>
> Funny, I know people that swear by Michelin (apparently including
> some folks
> on this list) but every Michelin I've ever had suffered a catastrophic
> sidewall blowout- two of them while parked on the side of the road,
> the rest
> while moving (which always makes things interesting), and on three
> different
> vehicles to boot. None of them were on my Vgon, but they were all light
> truck tires. I will not buy, own or run another Michelin and I'd
> rather not
> ride on them on somebody else's vehicle if I can help it. A 100% failure
> rate is a little much.
>
> Cya,
> Robert
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Loren Busch" <starwagen@GMAIL.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 5:21 PM
> Subject: Re: Vanagon OEM tire report Yes, I am still using a 22 year old
> tire
>
>
>> RE: One after the other, the Michelins blew out.One at a blistering
>> 65mph
>> on
>> rt 95( heading home from a junkyard,full of booty).All 4 destroyed in
>> about
>> 3K.
>>
>> Roger, I think we would all like to know the size and model of the
>> Michelins
>> that gave this kind of performance.....