I've just recently put new radial snow tires on both my Jetta and one of my
diesel rabbits. The "bad" thing is that the rear tires on both vehicles are
less than sufficient for what I use the cars for. the reason they only got
tires on the front was because there aren't any available 13inch snow tires
around here. I purchased them at 2 different places and neither set was the
size I wanted ( the correct size) . I now have 170/70R 13's on the rabbit
and 185/70 R 13's on the Jetta, on the front and BOTH cars have 155/80R13's
on the rear.( until someone gets resupplied ) The ONLY trouble I'm having
comes NOT from the tire being oversized or mismatched , but the hind end
wants to pass me from time to time. This is really not a big problem, just
point the front in the direction I Want to go and punch the throttle and
everything comes back into perspective!  VANAGON CONTENT..........I
purchased a tranny from Ken at Van-again, excellent service BTW , he put it
on the truck on the 22nd and it got to Michigan on Christmas eve. ! However
UPS had mishandled the package and it was broken upon arrival. Does anyone
know if a guy could remove the "nose piece" of the tranny and replace it
with another one , or is it an integral part of the transmission? I was
thinking/hoping that it was just a place to bolt on the front mount, and a
cover. ???????? Tom