OK, here goes my nickel. I have the 16" GoWesty-type wheels. I had the
Michelin X-ONE's on them until a trip to Durango, CO. It was raining, there
was a lot of debris from the canyon walls on the road and I hit a pretty
large rock with both right tires. Both sidewalls blistered. MY OPINION: the
low profile sidewalls, although a real good feature to stabilize the van (it
drove like a slot car, even fully loaded), were too low and vulnerable to
absorb the impact. I now have taller reinforced tires on the van and
although it does not handle quite as crisply, I feel less vulnerable to such
incidents. I like the way it handles rougher dirt roads now. Was in the
Moab/Canyonlands area last week and drove some fairly long rocky, dirt,
sandy, steep roads out onto the White Rim.

The link below is what it now looks like:
http://groups.msn.com/BobsPhotoShare/87syncrowestfaliatiico.msnw?Page=1

As you can see I had to do the spare shift to put it on some device on the
rear, and that is only because I wanted 225's and they will not fit in the
stock spare or modified spare carrier under the front.
Bob Stevens
'87 Syncro Westy
http://groups.msn.com/BobsPhotoShare
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tiico

> Does anyone on this list run of one of the GoWesty alloy wheel/tire
> packages?
>
> -james
> 83.5 country homes camper