Date:         Wed, 1 Apr 1998 12:53:07 -0600
Reply-To:     Terry Tiessen <TTiessen@PROVIDENCE.MB.CA>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <Vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         Terry Tiessen <TTiessen@PROVIDENCE.MB.CA>
Subject:      New Michelin EV Tires
Comments: To: Vanagon <vanagon@vanagon.com>
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Norman said that the Agilis is the tire on the EV VR6's soon to be
released. This must be a change. My '97 camper, with the VR6 engine
(wonderful), came with GoodYear "Cargo Vectors" in the 205/65/15 size.

Cheers,
Terry

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Terry Tiessen
'97 "Eurobago"

____
>From: Leong, Norman
>To: Vanagon@VANAGON.COM
>Cc:
>Sent: April 01, 1998 09:57 AM
>Subject: Re: New Michelin EV Tires
>
>
>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
>