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Lil Lulu Samba Member
Joined: December 08, 2007 Posts: 1745 Location: Mouth of the Columbia
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Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2018 10:32 pm Post subject: Tire love |
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I just purchased 4 new Hancook 185/70 LT RA 18 - 14” tires on eBay. For $348 shipped. I got them in 3 days. Sure that is a great price but even better; I took them to my local Costco and they took the old tires off, inflated with nitro, installed new stems, mounted and balanced them all for $60 including tire disposal charge. The poor bastards had to use floor jacks to do the job and it took about 2 hrs. but I was pleased. One of the wheel studs was buggered and they had a chase nut to dress it up.
Hard to beat that. I tried to tip them but nooooo. _________________ '65 Beetle "Lil' Lulu"- Ruby Red
1600 stock from '71 bus
'72 Deluxe - Niagara Blue w/pastelwiess Camper Special 2L dual 40 Webers 002
'74 Hightop Weekender "Dixie" 1800 34 Del singles |
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Yarkle Samba Member
Joined: August 03, 2009 Posts: 1218 Location: the Hills of Western Maine
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Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2018 4:16 am Post subject: Re: Tire love |
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I dunno if thats the same outfit i got my hankooks for for urkelgrue, but when busdepot was having the great tire shortage and was advertising the hankooks for 99 but when you tried to buy the price was 139 due to the "shortage", i got 5 off of ebay for i think 425 or somethign like that, shipped for free, and when i checked the date code they were only 6 months old.
(i had been concerned i was going to be getting 2 or 3 year old tires, but, nope, really new) _________________ Tilda the Mustard Tigress 1973 Squareback (o'''^'''o)
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BubbaD Samba Member
Joined: April 03, 2014 Posts: 5 Location: Seattle
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Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2018 4:22 pm Post subject: Re: Tire love |
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Do you recommend these tires?
I am trying to figure out what to put on my '78
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my59 Samba Member
Joined: August 13, 2003 Posts: 3781 Location: connecting the dots
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Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2018 4:37 pm Post subject: Re: Tire love |
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There are a ton of tire threads here to review if you want to.
In short, yes.
I had some craptastical passenger tires on the bus when I got it, and it was like driving on marshmallows. The Hankooks were a huge improvement, to the point that my oldest yanks my chain that the bus is not an F1 car. It's now about 30k miles later, and it's still the same _________________ my59: Well son, my grandfather died before I got to drive it, so does that answer your question?
our79: sunroof bus w/camper interior and 2.0 FI
Other:'12 Jetta, '77 Benz 300D, and a 74 MG Midget. |
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MGBBob80 Samba Member
Joined: April 05, 2009 Posts: 126 Location: Bremerton, WA
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Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2018 8:15 pm Post subject: Re: Tire love |
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BubbaD wrote: |
Do you recommend these tires?
I am trying to figure out what to put on my '78 |
I’ve got about 15K on mine and really like them. _________________ Cheers,
Bob
1978 Type 2 Transporter. 2L engine (engine code GE), Fuel Injection, 4-speed manual transmission.His name is Buddy.
"I reserve the right to be better tomorrow than I am today." |
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hazetguy Samba Member
Joined: April 06, 2001 Posts: 10773 Location: iT StiNgeD iTseLf tO dEAd
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Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2018 6:33 am Post subject: Re: Tire love |
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https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=162278 _________________ thebucket: I invested in hoodride, now DBD won't return my call?
hazetguy: invested?
thebucket: Yeah Haze, its where people put money into a company in hopes of a return on their money |
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Gregg in the 603 Samba Member
Joined: April 13, 2013 Posts: 398 Location: New Hampshire, USA
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Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2018 8:21 am Post subject: Re: Tire love |
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I wicked lucked out. Searched Craigslist and found 4 brand new Conti Vanco's mounted on stock rims within 5 miles of my house. $200 cash, that was awesome! _________________ 1979 Mexico Beige Westy auto
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EverettB Administrator
Joined: April 11, 2000 Posts: 69734 Location: Phoenix Metro
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