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On Friday 05 October 2001 12:32, Mike Wodkowski wrote: > > Are those "Sportmasters"? Can you give us a bit more info as to what wear > rating means? I believe they are Sportsmasters. I would have to go out and look. The wear rating is a number that tell you how hard the rubber composition is in the tread layer. The higher the number, the longer they will last. Lower the number, the better the grip on pavement. Like with mine, I get the higher ratings because I drive a lot of gravel roads, that wear tires pretty fast. The corners of the gravel chips have a tendency to cut "little" chunks out of the rubber. With a low wear rating, say 200, my tires wouldnt last much over a 10K miles. With the higher wear ratings, I can get 20-30K miles out of a set of tires. But, with the higher wear ratings that I use, I wouldnt want to go "autocrossing" on them. I would have any traction for cornering. Bet the wear rating that is suitable for your type of driving. BTW, I looked at my paper work from when I had them installed, and I paid $32 each mounted and balanced. Plus sales tax. -- Russ Wolfe '71 Fastback AT '66 Fastback MT (IT RUNS) russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe? mailto:type3-request@vwtype3.org, Subject: unsubscribe