[T3] Tire Sizes

[Keith Park]

These are a new addition, not available a year ago.
My guess is they are re-branded Nankangs, but that's a guess.
Get them up to 90 and you'll be able to tell :-)

Anybody know who's making them?

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-----
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[mailto:type3-vwtype3.org-bounces at lists.vwtype3.org] On Behalf Of Don
Robertson
Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2014 12:40 PM
To: type3 at vwtype3.org; type3 at vwtype3.org
Subject: Re: [T3] Tire Sizes


Tire Rack has some for $68.00.  Does anyone know who actually makes 
these tires and if they are any good?

http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires.jsp?tireMake=Classic&tireModel=All+Seaso
n&partnum=68TR5CAS&vehicleSearch=true&fromCompare1=yes&autoMake=Volkswagen&a
utoYear=1966&autoModel=Beetle&autoModClar=

At 12:23 PM 5/4/2014, Keith Park wrote:
>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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