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Subject:Re: Safety opinion tires
From:Tom Buese
Date:Fri, 8 Jun 2012 17:59:15 -0400

Yep, & I have those exact 4 tires on my westy-run them all year round.

YMMV,

Mr. BZ-what tires do you run?  NOT!

On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Jeff Schwaia <vw.doka@gmail.com> wrote:

> Rick,
>
> Here are some 14" snow tires:
>
>
> http://www.van-cafe.com/home/van/page_1172_1408/nokian_tire_185r_14_hakkapel
> iitta_c.html
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeff
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
> Rick Koller
> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2012 11:52 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Safety opinion tires
>
> In the List's infinite wisdom, is it nonsense to run BFG AT;s 195 75
> 14 rear tires and Hankook 195R14 front tires at the same time? This is on a
> 2WD van,  BFG AT's rear as snow tires. Diameter for the Hankook is 26.3
> inches revs/mile 790, the BFG is 25.5inch diameter and 815 revs/mile. Just
> wondering since there don't seem to be any snow tires available for our
> rigs
> in 14inch.
> Thanks
> Rick
>

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Tom Buese