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On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 18:12, Jason Weigel wrote: > I know this comes up from time to time so now Im curious. If you ran radials > back in the day Russ, you more than likely had no bead on the rims? Right? > Any major catastrophic problems? Has VW ever had a recall on these rims? > > I only ask as I have 65 and older rims on all my cars with radials and have > never had any issues nor have I ever heard of any problems other than when > the cautionary statement pops up here on the list. > > So is this just a "technical" warning or is this an area of concern?? > VW said to install tubes in radial tires. I have heard of tires being knocked off the rims by hard side impacts, but back then, that was all you had. Yes, upon rapid deflation, you could "roll a car". Ralph Nader wrote a book about Corvair, "Unsafe at any speed". Their problem was that on hard cornering, the wheel could tuck, and break the bead, the car would flip. His next "victum" was to be the VW, but they changed to safety rims, and the suspension to IRS and got him off their backs. I think it was about 1966 that everyone started using safety rims. -- Russ Wolfe '71 FB AT '66 FB MT '64 T34 (not running) '65 T1 (not running) russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~