Date:         Wed, 5 Oct 1994 10:06:22 -0500 (CDT)
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         Gerald Skerbitz <gsker@lenti>
Subject:      RE: 6-ply tires???

On Tue, 4 Oct 1994 paul.uusitalo@aldus.com wrote:
Quoting david schwarze:
> >By the way, my first driving impressions of the tires are not good.  When
 
> Which Trailhandlers did you get? There are several different models
> available. I bought the Trailhandler APTs for my 87 Syncro and am quite

I don't think "available" is quite the right word.  I had  heck of a time 
convincing Sears that they had ANY tires for the van.  I didn't get the 
ATP (they didn't mention such a thing), but I did get some Trailhandlers 
-- 195/75 14 Reinforced six ply and all that.  They drove like crap.  
They were all over the road.

> One thing to check. The Sears guys inflated my tires to 30 PSI all around,
> rather than to the manual's specifications.

Sears said they wouldn't inflate them past 40, so I just let them put 
the 36 in them that they wanted to and then I put 45 in them when I got 
home.  Today I'll put 48 in them like is supposed to be.


--
Gerry
Gerald Skerbitz <gsker@med.umn.edu> U of MN Med School Admin 6-5379