Hopefully those 215/65's are reinforced or XL rated. Otherwise they are at the lower limit of acceptable capacity for the Vanagon. Especially if you subscribe to the 10% de-rate when using passenger car tires on light trucks.
Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of John Jensen Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2011 2:29 PM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Re: tire circumference I swapped my steel 14" rims for 15" Alloys with 215/65 tires. The 10/10 calculator shows my revs/mi as 800. My speedometer says 820. So I guess my speed will show as 97.5 percent of my actual speed. So when my speedometer shows 65, I'm actually doing 67. John Jensen '80 Westy Camper johnjensen@johnjensenartist.com http://www.johnjensenartist.com bluesbug@verizon.net |
Please note - During the past 17 years of operation, several gigabytes of
Vanagon mail messages have been archived. Searching the entire collection
will take up to five minutes to complete. Please be patient!
Return to the archives @ gerry.vanagon.com
The vanagon mailing list archives are copyright (c) 1994-2011, and may not be reproduced without the express written permission of the list administrators. Posting messages to this mailing list grants a license to the mailing list administrators to reproduce the message in a compilation, either printed or electronic. All compilations will be not-for-profit, with any excess proceeds going to the Vanagon mailing list.
Any profits from list compilations go exclusively towards the management and operation of the Vanagon mailing list and vanagon mailing list web site.