---- J Stewart <fonman4277@COMCAST.NET> wrote:
 I've had over 80 cars in my 52 years, and probably put different or aftermarket rims on 30 of them and never had this much to deal with. Now I know why I left stock wheels on my other vanagons! Jeff
> Jeff Stewart

I've always been confused as to why people put non-stock rims on cars in the first place, but then I just try to use a vehicle as it was built to be used.  If I didn't think that kind of vehicle would serve my purposes as designed/built, I'd get a different kind.  But, different folks have different ideas.

One thing I've noticed in recent years is very large rims and consequently very thin (very low aspect ratio) tires.  I know about the notion of "performance," but isn't holding up to potholes, and for us vanagon users rough, unpaved roads considered performance, too?

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David McNeely