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Date:         Wed, 12 Jan 2011 00:01:30 -0800
Reply-To:     Kim Springer <kimspringer@ASTOUND.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Kim Springer <kimspringer@ASTOUND.NET>
Subject:      Re: Hankook RA08
Comments: To: brett rueff <rueffy@HOTMAIL.COM>
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After creating a long string of inquiries about tires several months ago, I bought the Hankook RA08 195-15.

Great tire in the rain, made the Tristar more stable in cross winds than the Michelins LTX MS and I recently got to run them up and down some mountain roads. I think they handle very well on a road I grew up on and know like the back of my hand. I could easily keep up with all the other locals that also know the road. Not bad.

Kim

-----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of brett rueff Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 4:49 PM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Hankook RA08

Last week picked up my Hankook RA08 in Northern Washington and had them installed. I got them from the Bus Depot. Interestingly I contacted most of the big tire vendors in the area and none were able to match the bus depots price.

After the tires were installed - what a difference!! I had some old light truck snow tires on there that were not properly load rated and had started to separate. A lot of the vibration I had is now gone (I had low speed vibration and also high speed at 60-65mph). The handling is good-excellent. The lady and I took the van up to stevens pass skiing the next day and snow and ice grip was acceptable. The only area I didn't really see an improvement is crosswinds - we had some good 30-40mph cross winds on the highway and she was a bit squirly....but its a land-yacht so im not surprised!!

Overall very very happy. it was about $480 installed. Same tires in Canada (if I could find them) would have been 800-900$$$

Brett Langley, BC =


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