Tires
- Westy78
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- Location: Stumptown OR
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- Hippopotabus
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- Amskeptic
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Man! With those seats and these tires, you have some sort of sleeper VW panzer.Hippopotabus wrote: After I got my Michelins I'll never look back.
Colin
BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles
- Hippopotabus
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- Randy in Maine
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Well I just had my Vredestein Comtrac 205/65/15s mounted on these GoWesty alloys and boy are they nice to drive with. Load index 102 running 30psi up front and 44 psi in the rear. Windwag greatly diminished. This thing handles really well.
Previously I had Michelin "The Ones" passenger car tires and they were indeed "weak in the knees" or sidewalls as the case may be (load index 95 30 psi up front & 35 (the max) in the rear).
I should have done this a long time ago.
Previously I had Michelin "The Ones" passenger car tires and they were indeed "weak in the knees" or sidewalls as the case may be (load index 95 30 psi up front & 35 (the max) in the rear).
I should have done this a long time ago.
79 VW Bus
- dcketh
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- Location: Ogden, Utah
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I may have screwed up, but I hope not. When I bought my Westy this summer it came with passenger car tires, and "teeny" ones at that (P185/70R14). I was planning to buy new Hankooks or Coopers this fall after I got an engine in the bus, but then a Vanagon driver in our local club put these up for sale. He had put 2k-3k miles on them and then decided to switch to 15" alloys. The price was right, they came with the rims (which I wanted another set of anyway) and even though they are passenger car tires (P225/70R14) they are rated 1523#@44psi. To be painfully honest, I didn't notice that they aren't light truck tires till I got them home because I had LT235/75R15 Liberators on my truck a few years back and liked them, and I didn't even think to check whether they also came in a passenger car version. The seller said they rode great, alot better than the "car tires" that were on his Vanagon when he bought it. Hopefully I won't regret it, either way I'll try to remember to report back here.
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~ Dan ~
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'66 Beetle Deluxe
'71 Westy Hardtop
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'66 Beetle Deluxe
'71 Westy Hardtop
- dcketh
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- Location: Ogden, Utah
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Thanks. Perhaps I'll go home tonight and throw them on, and see how they fit. By my calculations, they should be about 3/4" taller than 185R14s which will only extend 3/8" higher into the wheel well, but thay are about 1-9/16" wider which will extend half of that, or little more than 3/4" deeper into the wheel well.bus71 wrote:I would carefully check tire clearence. Vanagens have more room in the wheelwells. Good luck!
~ Dan ~
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'66 Beetle Deluxe
'71 Westy Hardtop
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'66 Beetle Deluxe
'71 Westy Hardtop
- static
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"What's the clearance, Clarence?"
You should be fine. The '71 buses (the best VW bus ever made) have extra-wide wheel wells, unlike their predecessors.
And, for what it's worth, back in the dark ages (when I drove a '64 Sundial Camper and had shoulder-length hair) I always drove on recapped, passenger-car, radial tires. When VW buses roamed the earth and were still new, I only knew one person who used the LT tires (Continentals) and we all thought that he was weird.
Yes, ideally you want to be on stiffened sidewalled LT tires, but plenty of us old doofusses drove for years on inappropriate tires with no blow-outs.
You should be fine. The '71 buses (the best VW bus ever made) have extra-wide wheel wells, unlike their predecessors.
And, for what it's worth, back in the dark ages (when I drove a '64 Sundial Camper and had shoulder-length hair) I always drove on recapped, passenger-car, radial tires. When VW buses roamed the earth and were still new, I only knew one person who used the LT tires (Continentals) and we all thought that he was weird.
Yes, ideally you want to be on stiffened sidewalled LT tires, but plenty of us old doofusses drove for years on inappropriate tires with no blow-outs.