Date:         Wed, 1 Apr 1998 07:57:26 -0800
Reply-To:     "Leong, Norman" <norman.leong@LAMRC.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <Vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         "Leong, Norman" <norman.leong@LAMRC.COM>
Subject:      Re: New Michelin EV Tires
Comments: To: "vanagon@vanagon.com" <vanagon@vanagon.com>
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Ric said:

>told that the MXL reinforced tires were no longer available. Michelin
is
>replacing the MXL with a tire called the Agilis. If you are interested
in
>these tires the stock number for the EuroVan is 99128.

These are nice tires; I don't know the gory details (mainly because I
haven't looked closely at the sidewall), but they should be at least the
equivalent of the MXL, if not better.  I bought a set of 4 of the Agilis
from Tire Rack and as I recall they ended up being about 90-something
bucks, which I thought was pretty reasonable.  I've not mounted them
yet because I'm still waiting for the belts to pop through the tread  ;)
I'm impressed with those MXLs; I'm pretty sure we're going to clear
50K miles on the original set.  :)

BTW, the 205/65/15 Agilis is the OEM tire on the soon-to-be EV VR6
and they were pretty quiet and handled well, maybe even for late braking
freeway offramps...   ;)

Norman