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Subject:Re: Reinforced tires - what about other vans?
From:Allan Streib
Date:Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:44:16 -0400

Tony Collins <tonycollin@GMAIL.COM> writes:

> I think I learned something and that was the application of degradingthe
> rating of tires....I read the article previously, but kept getting hung up
> on that. I just could not make up the 9% on my visial sceme of
> learning.

My understanding is that when you use passenger tires in a light truck
application (which includes the Vanagon) you need to reduce the rated
load limit by 9% to get the effective load limit for LT use.

I never knew this either before I read the Bus Depot web site pages.

Allan
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1991 Vanagon GL