After creating a long string of inquiries about tires several months ago, I
bought the Hankook RA08 195-15.

Great tire in the rain, made the Tristar more stable in cross winds than the
Michelins LTX MS and I recently got to run them up and down some mountain
roads. I think they handle very well on a road I grew up on and know like
the back of my hand. I could easily keep up with all the other locals that
also know the road. Not bad.

Kim

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
brett rueff
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 4:49 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Hankook RA08

Last week picked up my Hankook RA08 in Northern Washington and had them
installed.  I got them from the Bus Depot.  Interestingly I contacted most
of the big tire vendors in the area and none were able to match the bus
depots price.

After the tires were installed - what a difference!!  I had some old light
truck snow tires on there that were not properly load rated and had started
to separate.  A lot of the vibration I had is now gone (I had low speed
vibration and also high speed at 60-65mph).  The handling is good-excellent.
The lady and I took the van up to stevens pass skiing the next day and snow
and ice grip was acceptable.  The only area I didn't really see an
improvement is crosswinds - we had some good 30-40mph cross winds on the
highway and she was a bit squirly....but its a land-yacht so im not
surprised!!

Overall very very happy.  it was about $480 installed.  Same tires in Canada
(if I could find them) would have been 800-900$$$

Brett
Langley, BC
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