Another interesting note... the FACTORY tires on my Dad's 1991 Ford F-150 4x4 are Firestone P235-75 15" - they are passanger tires and not light truck tires! The load rating is greater than GVWR / 4 so I guess this is Ford's reasoning for this one...
At 01:13 10/26/98 -0800, Per Lindgren wrote: >&C minis use 215/65 SR 15, they weigh around 1700 kg, and I'll bet that >NONE of this cars use truck tires, go with passenger tires, as long as you >get the right load index, which by the way is 97 for Vanagons. PerL >88 Syncro David Marshall wrote: I have passanger tires on my Syncro >(225/60 16") and I must say that they > The problem with the passanger > This is hell on your tires > LT tires are usually 3 ply for the side >walls thus giving you that extra margin of safety. The problem with 16" >wheels is that you have to get a 28" tire to get a LT > I think the smallest is a 215/70 16" which is what I am getting (BFG >AT). & Steve Kammerer wrote: >>if one were to use 16"tires on a 97 EVC, are there light truck tires >>that would work? >> >>tia. >>stevek >>97 EVC
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