are you referring to commercial graded tires? i use the vredestien
steels on my vanagon with excellant handling.  many LT rated (if  that
is what you are referring to) actually are not load rated for a
vanagon. read the sidewalls.
jimt
On Saturday, Oct 5, 2002, at 01:31 America/Denver, Andrew Grebneff
wrote:

> Vanagons supposedly handle extremely well, but that will be in
> particular with performanvce tires, NOT light-truck tires
> (rim-protectors).