I carry a mismatched spare tire, along with a set of open end wrenches to remove the driveshaft should I ever need to use the spare. A decoupler would be nice - wrenches are cheaper.

Angus

Angus Gordon
Bainbridge Island WA

On Nov 28, 2012, at 11:31 PM, Dick Wong <sailingfc@DSLEXTREME.COM> wrote:

> You're right, tires are cheaper than a VC.  I guess I'll go shopping this
> weekend and see what I can find for the spare.  If I can't find the same
> tire, I hate to toss out a set of A/T light truck tires that only have about
> 11K miles on them.
> 
> -Dick-
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dennis Haynes [mailto:d23haynes57@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2012 11:17 PM
> To: 'Dick Wong'; vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: RE: New owner questions-Syncro ownership costs.
> 
> 4/32" is a worn out tire anyway. Test have shown wet traction at that point
> is half along with reduced hydroplaning resistance. AT tires can be 15/32"
> or more new. One different tire on an axle is not as bad as two. And a new
> coupling can be $2K plus installation. Makes matched tires cheap. If your
> coupling fails in the excessive aggressive mode than consider a drive shaft
> de-coupler.
> 
> Dennis
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
> Dick Wong
> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 1:40 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: New owner questions-Syncro ownership costs.
> 
> Wow, that's not much!
> 
> So a brand new tire has maybe 12/32" depth on the new tread. If I put on the
> same tire worn tire down to say 4/32" tread depth, the difference from the
> center of the tire to the tread is 0.25" or 6.4mm.
> That's enough to fry my VC?
> 
> -Dick-
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Stevens [mailto:mtbiker62@gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2012 10:18 PM
> To: Dick Wong
> Cc: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: [VANAGON] New owner questions-Syncro ownership costs.
> 
> 
> On Nov 28, 2012, at 10:29 PM, Dick Wong <sailingfc@DSLEXTREME.COM> wrote:
> 
> So how much difference in tire size is considered a mismatch?  I have
> 27x8.50-14s all around and the spare is 205/70x14. According to my tire
> calculator that's a difference of 1.63" between the two.
> 
> IIRC, about 3mm is max tolerance before your VC notices and burns up. That
> is about $1K to replace.
> 
> bob
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