Me too, since '85. Right now I've got a pair of $39.95 Futuras from Pep
Boys and some 92 rated Master Craft snow tires on back. Not that I'd recommend
 them, but no problems and they're at least eight years old.

Dale  Ward
Shrewsbury MA
Mr. Negative Energy
Sometime LiMBO Club House  Keeper

In a message dated 12/5/2010 3:56:09 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
crescentbeachguitar@gmail.com writes:

Funny that - I've been driving daily  on passenger car tires since 1992,
many of them rated far below 98T, without  any incidents whatsoever.

In a message dated 12/5/2010 4:06:27 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM writes:

Funny  that - I've been driving daily on passenger car tires since 1992,
many
of  them rated far below 98T, without any incidents whatsoever.

Currently  running Continental ContiTouring CH95 on Dixie and just about to
bolt up my  Continental ExtremeWinterContact snows.

You don't have to believe  Chicken Little...

On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Dale Ward  <MrNegNRG@aol.com> wrote:

> I was all set to go with the  Generals until I read this. Check out the
> pictures.
>
>  _http://busdepot.com/details/tires.jsp_
>  (http://busdepot.com/details/tires.jsp)
>
>
> Dale   Ward
> Shrewsbury MA
> Sometime LiMBO Club House  Keeper
>
>
>
>
>
>
> In a message  dated 12/4/2010 8:34:17 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>  d23haynes57@HOTMAIL.COM writes:
>
>
>
http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires.jsp?tireMake=General&tireModel=Altimax+R
>
T&partnum=07TR4AMAXRTXL&vehicleSearch=false&fromCompare1=yes<http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires.jsp?tireMake=General&tireModel=Altimax+R%0AT&partnum
=07TR4AMAXRTXL&vehicleSearch=false&fromCompare1=yes>
>
>  As  of now this is THE tire to get for stock size with proper  load
> capacity.
> While it does not particularly excel in any one  characteristic it  is a
> very
> good all purpose tire that  meets the Vanagon's requirements. The  price
is
> also right. This  is the perfect replacement for the original tires  as
> supplied on  the alloy wheels at 1/2 the price of those Michelins when
they
>  were available.
>
>  Dennis
>

--
Jake

1984 Vanagon GL 1.9 WBX - 'The  Grey Van'
1986 Westy Weekender/2.5 SOHC Subie - 'Dixie'

Crescent  Beach,  BC

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