In a message dated 20/09/2005 6:53:09 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
LISTSERV@GERRY.VANAGON.COM writes:

Michelin  Canada only sold the Agilis through Sears. Sears in Canada no=20
longer  carries Michelin tires --- so they sent me to Green and  Ross/Active=
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Tire. They don't have them either -- they show as  unavailable. So I looked=
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at Jeff Palmer's suggestion of LTX M&S  --- they are on freaking back order=
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for 6 weeks. Along the way I  found that Michelin rates the LTX M&S higher=
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than the Agilis.  Follow this link to see the  ratings:
http://www.michelinman.ca/catalog/comparison_6.html?tire=3D7
The  tire guy suggested Uniroyal Laredo AWP ---- saying that they're the=20
same  tire, out of the same factory, as the LXT -- just a slightly  different=
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tread pattern. I went to check them out and found they  use exactly the same=
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rating system as Michelin (makes sense sorta,  same company same webdesign=
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etc.) and they rated even higher then  the LTX's. While this is not=20
conclusive it is interesting to  see:
http://www.uniroyal.com/catalog/comparison_laredo.html?tire=3D2
Anyway  I'm getting the Laredo's mounted on Thursday -- $130 Cdn  each.

Doug, Michelin LTX are the tires I had on my Westy  before I put on the
alloys with those crappy Euro Metric Radials.  The  LTX's had about 75,000 miles on
them when I removed them and lent them to my bud  Andre who used them for a
while until he switched to 15" rims.  They are  still usable and I may put them
on my newly acquires '87 Wolfsburg which needs  tires.  Anyways, seems
Michelin is having problems with stock on both the  Agilis and LTX here in Canada.
Now, all that said I found the LTX to be a  great tire on the Westy BUT if you
check the load rating you will see that the  LTX has a lower load rating than
the Agilis.  The LTX is just at the lower  limit according to Larry's just
published tire document >
_Click here: VW  Vanagon Tires_
(http://www.roadhaus.com/Tires/Tire%20Guidelines.html) .  The LAREDO's you found, I can't say anything about  except I've
seen them on some of my customers Westy's.  No one offered them  to me during
my recent tire search here in Ottawa.  As I said yesterday, I  went with the
Vredesteine Comtracs which get installed tomorrow.

Cheers,

Frank  Condelli
Almonte, Ontario, Canada
'87 Westy, '90 Carat, '87 Wolfsburg  (Forsale) & Lionel Trains
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