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Subject:Re: Nokia's Hakkaapelitta No. 10 185R14C.
From:Mark Ingalls
Date:Wed, 11 Oct 2000 18:33:36 CDT

>Do you have a source for some leftover Hakka 10C's?
>
>Rich

Nokina's distribution  center (1-800-565-2525)directed me to George
(1-800-222-7360) at Meadow Creek Tire in Colorado. George told me he had a
bunch in the size for the Vanagon.

Mark Ingalls
85 GL
Nebraska

>From: JKrevnov@aol.com
>To: ingalls_mark@hotmail.com
>Subject: Re: Nokia's Hakkaapelitta No. 10 185R14C.
>Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 14:53:55 EDT
>
>
>In a message dated 10/11/00 2:20:13 PM, ingalls_mark@HOTMAIL.COM writes:
>
><< Does anyone have experience with this tire on all 4 wheels as a year
>round
>tire?
>
>They run around $90US like all the rest.
>  >>
>
>Mark,
>
>I have taken to running them year round on a Syncro.  I like them.  In wet,
>dry or snow, they are heads above the raunchy Yokohama's I removed.  Sad to
>say, Nokian no longer offers them in that size.  I will only run a 185R14
>or
>195R14 on a Vanagon.
>
>I wish these companies would stop fooling around with a proven quantity.
>The
>only winter tire I liked better was the Vredestein.  They stopped bringing
>those into the US a few years ago.  I never had the chance to run them on a
>Syncro but, I think they would be as good or better.  From what Nokian told
>me yesterday, the Hakka 10C has been replaced by the C2 which is a studless
>design and an unknow to me and my vendor.  I never felt the need to run
>studs
>but, still, I do not switch once a product proves itself to be to my
>satisfaction.  I bought a set last year and paid about $70US per tire which
>included the shipping.  Over the last couple of years, UPS is taking a much
>bigger bite.  It used to cost $5US/tire for shipping from my vendor.  Last
>year, it jumped to $11.50US/tire.
>
>Do you have a source for some leftover Hakka 10C's?
>
>Rich

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