Mine is the original Michelin. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
Of John Bange
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 9:09 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Old Spare Tire

I backed over a piece of angle iron in my mom's driveway last night and
flattened my right front tire. So I jack it up, pull the flat off and
drop the spare. It suddenly occurs to me that I ought to LOOK at the
spare, see if it's decent. In a year of ownership, even pulling that
spare out a dozen times to get at stuff underneath, I never actually
checked the tire. It had plenty of tread and held air OK-- just never
occurred to me. It's a Continental 185R14C, and from the look of the
rubber, I bet it came with the van when it was shipped from Graz. I
drove home on surface streets, keeping it under 40mph, at it still seems
OK-- but I'm definitely replacing it tomorrow when I get the flat
replaced. Just thought I'd mention it, in case there's some other
dunderhead on the list like me, driving around with a 15+ year old tire
under the nose.

--
John Bange
'90 Vanagon - "Geldsauger"