Date:         Wed, 25 Dec 2013 19:49:11 -0500
Reply-To:     Tom Buese <tantonbz@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Tom Buese <tantonbz@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Tire observation
Comments: To: Richard A Jones <Jones@colorado.edu>
In-Reply-To:  <52BB75EB.3090707@colorado.edu>
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I notice that my syncro doka w/out PS & no decoupler is very hard to steer
in parking lots, etc., but my 2wd westy w/o PS  & big steering wheel is no
problem! However, my syncro w/ Hakka winter tires will go anywhere in our
current ice storm conditions, but the 2wd westy w/ winter hakkas & TBD is
semi worthless, not that I am driving it now.

YMMV,

Mr. BZ-still would never install chains on any of my vehicles! LOL!


On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 7:18 PM, Richard A Jones <Jones@colorado.edu> wrote:

> On 12/25/2013 12:52 PM, Dennis wrote:
>
>> The Vanagon is
>> probably amongst the last breed of vehicle available without power
>> steering.
>>
>
> While my '81 Vanagon does not have PS, my '87 Syncro Westy does, and
> I appreciate it--more so after driving from California back to
> Colorado without a belt for it once.  On the highway, you'd never
> know, but pull into the gas station and you wanted the PS>
>
> But my "newest" car, an '88 Carrera does NOT have PS, and I know it
> everytime I parallel park!  My old '72 911T didn't need it, but by
> '88, the tires had gotten so wide that it was work.  The next
> year with the Carrera 4, power steering came along for 911s.
>
> Richard
>



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Tom Buese