---- Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> The rated load on these works out to be about
> 70lbs under VWs stated max GVW load, if you use that 'correction factor'
> (knock off 9% of the load if the tires are called Passenger car tires...how
> they figure that?) assigned somewhere by someone.

"Someone" is the U.S. Department of Transportation, the agency responsible for tire safety on U.S. roads.

David McNeely