From: DAVID MOST <most@ucla.edu> Hi. I use the 70k mi version of these tires (futura 2000 or something like that), but the list seems to agree that such tires are not really sufficient. I recently obtained another vanagon that has some truck tires (load rating c), and the ride in it seems firmer and nicer. It could be a suspension difference though. What do you think? David Notice that the Futura metric and the Futura 2000 are infact quite different tires in terms of nr of plies, thread pattern, load rating and max psi. (See my previous post for the figures) Making blanket statement about passenger car tires is not so easy as it may appear when reading the vanagon list archives. Of paramount importance is that the load rating is sufficient and that the tire can be inflated sufficiently for good handling. Many performance import cars come with tires that can be inflated to 44psi and generally have much higher load ratings than a domestic 35psi tire. Some domestic makers (e.g. Futura is made by Kelly) have started making replacements for these, often called "metric". The big brands (michelin, yokohama etc etc) also have plenty of 44psi passenger car tires. /Martin -- Westy 1.9l Turbo Diesel Quantum 1.6l Turbo Diesel Martin Jagersand email: jag@cs.yale.edu Computer Science Department jag@cs.rochester.edu Yale University Slow down and visit the VW diesel Westy page: WWW: http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/jag/vw ------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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