[T3] Tire Sizes

[Keith Park]

There are few options for GOOD tires, but several for crap tires.

Crap Tires:
NEXEN, the wal-mart brand
NanKang, available anywhere

Good tires:
Kuhmo, but only container order tires available ONLY
At Discount tire stores (NOT internet or shippable)

Federal, these may be going obsolete too.
Vledrestein (or some similar spelling) but these are expensive.

If you go from stock 4.5 to 5.5" rims your choices get a lot better.

Keith


Top Notch Restorations
topnotch at nycap.rr.com 
http://www.a383ina68.addr.com/radiorest/main.htm
71 Squareback "Hothe"
65 Notchback "El Baja Rojo"
65 Squareback "Eggcrate"
87 golf "Winterat"
93 RX7 "Redstur"


-----Original Message-----
From: type3-vwtype3.org-bounces at lists.vwtype3.org
[mailto:type3-vwtype3.org-bounces at lists.vwtype3.org] On Behalf Of J. Jonik
Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2014 1:42 PM
To: Type 3
Subject: [T3] Tire Sizes



'71 T-III      Shopping for tires for T-IIIs isn't so easy anymore. When
tire dealers on-line ask for year and make, they don't even offer anything
before about 1984.


And there's different messages about this out there.

Bentley says, for radial, it's 165 SR 15...though my current tires just have
an "R", not "SR".

Elsewhere I read that there's a size 6.00 SR 15.  Is that wider, or
narrower, than 165 R 15? 

 For the sake of the spare storage, there's not much room to shove in
something bigger than 165 R 15.

So...are there any alternate sizes that will fit in spare storage, and not
rub against fender doing sharp turns?

And...if nothing to find in Philadelphia area, where to get proper VW tires?

And...if one has to resort to salvage yards to find inspection-passing
tires, what other car(s) used that size tire?
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