Tires, where to find Winter?

[email protected] · Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2014 10:59 am Post subject: Tires, where to find Winter?

Have a 1978 bug. Trying to find winter tires. Limited knowledge on what i'm looking for. my wheels read:

1 over 72
4 1/2 1 x 15 ET34
1511

My current summer tires are 155 SR 15 with wheels reading:
4 1/2 1 x 15
127 3KE
ET34

Both sets have the VW on them, but I have no idea what i should be shopping for. ANY HELP.

ps2375 · Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2014 3:55 pm Post subject:

I'd would get winter snow tires the same size as your summer tires. As wheels appear to be the same. If you can find a slightly narrower winter tire, go with that, otherwise the same size for winter should do just fine.

DuaneL · Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2014 5:54 pm Post subject:

seeing as it is nearly impossible to find true winter tires in the 155-165 r15 range I would say your best bet would be something in the 185-195 60r-70r range use a tire calculator to try to find a size close to the same height and then go by what ever size is easiest to find locally or cheaply.
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Mike Fisher · Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2014 7:19 am Post subject:

Better off in the snow/rain to have skinnier tires. I would buy any cheap 165 marked M&S or Vredestein/Coker M&S.
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ps2375 · Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2014 8:00 pm Post subject:

I would think with the OP in Germany, there should be some sort of tire supplier in one of the countries to the north that would have a tire to fit.

sactojesse · Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2014 9:51 am Post subject:

Searching on the Tire Rack website, I was able to find several all-season M&S-rated tires in 155/80R15 and 165/80R15, but no dedicated winter tires. The closest in size and rolling diameter I could find for dedicated snow/winter tires were 175/65R15 and 185/65R15, both of which should fit on 15 x 4.5" rims. They are pretty comparable in diameter to your 155R15 (24.8") at 24" for 175/65R15 and 24.5" for 185/65R15.
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