<x-flowed>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 27 May 2007, at 01:58, Jim Adney wrote:
On 26 May 2007 at 9:27, Jens Vagelpohl wrote:I'm sure not all of those Nankangs are bad, but I sure would not buy them again. Should I need new tires I'll consider the (pricey) Coker Michelin XZX repros, and Vredestein makes new 165SR15s and 165HR15s as well.I don't think we've had anyone mention the Vredesteins here before. Is this something new, or perhaps they're just not available in the US. They should be a good tire.
I found them by looking for 165SR15 and 165HR15 on cokertire.com, and followed up by going to vredestein.com. They have a "Sprint+" as 165SR15 and a "Sprint Classic" as 165HR15. The vendor search on their site seems to find the Vredestein head office in New Jersey only, but I'm sure you could contact them and find out more or go through Coker if you were interested.
Funny off-topic anecdote: The 914 really needed 165HR15s to be street legal in Germany. When I had the car inspected I actually got the inspector to put a lower top speed into the papers so that the 165SR15s would be legal ;) SR tires are only legal on cars with top speeds less than 180 kph in Germany, so he put down 179 instead of the factory-indicated top speed of 182 kph.;-) I'm assuming you haven't often needed those last 3 kph.
Not yet and I hope I never need it ;) jens -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) iD8DBQFGWaWiRAx5nvEhZLIRAow0AJ4//exs7P0YhJY5OdYLPlIEdvJHxQCfaU9t F/TpNxbElSrd+vLOPnj3/kQ= =+caM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ </x-flowed>