Karl,

It's nice to hear something good about these tires. The Wonderbus is
getting four installed tomorrow that I had ordered from tirerack.com and
I was beginning to think I had ordered possibly the worst tires in the
world!

--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westphalia: "Mellow Yellow (The Electrical Banana)"
KG6RCR

Karl Wolz wrote:

>I've got them on two vans and like them.  The GL has C rated and the
>Westy has two D rated and two C rated.  I run them around 50 pounds of
>pressure.  They are smooth, seem to last a long time, quiet, and secure.
>I'd sure like to try some Michelin Agilis just to see if there really is
>a difference.
>
>Karl Wolz
>
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On
>>
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>Behalf Of
>
>
>>George Goff
>>Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 10:23 PM
>>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>>Subject: Re: yokohama y356
>>
>>In a message dated 9/24/04 12:46:54 AM, Andrew.Yarnell@KIMLEY-HORN.COM
>>writes:
>>
>><< and even on dry pavement they still did not instill
>>confidence. >>
>>
>>Andy,
>>
>>If you want to experience some lump-in-your-throat lack of confidence,
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>pump
>
>
>>up the pressure to 65 psi on a set of Y356's mounted on a Vanagon and
>>
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>take it
>
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>>for a spin.  The time I used Y356's, I had them mounted and an
>>
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>alignment done
>
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>>at a front-end shop I had never used before.  Since Vanagons are so
>>
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>rare where
>
>
>>I am, whenever I take a van to a shop for the first time, I talk to
>>
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>the
>
>
>>mechanic to let him know that Vanagons are a little different from
>>
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>what he usually
>
>
>>sees.  So, I mentioned to the front-end man that the van's tires
>>
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>required more
>
>
>>pressure than most cars and that they were rated for 65 psi max.  He
>>
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>must have
>
>
>>misunderstood what I said because he pumped them up to 65 psi, front
>>
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>and rear.
>
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>>The first hundred yards after I pulled away from his shop I
>>
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>thought,"Wow!
>
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>>What a difference new rubber makes; the steering is so light".  That
>>
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>thought
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>>soon changed to,"That SOB is trying to kill me!!!"  The rest of the
>>
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>way home, all
>
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>>I had to do was to only think about changing direction and the van
>>
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>would be
>
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>>on the other side of the road.
>>
>>George
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