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To: mgs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Tires
From: ATWEDITOR@aol.com
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 10:04:51 EDT
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In a message dated 8/29/00 10:04:05 AM, ATWEDITOR writes:

<< In a message dated 8/29/00 4:39:50 AM, schauss@worldnet.att.net writes:

<< For the MGB, the Michelin web page recommends 185/70-R14s 
(Energy MXV4 - speed rating 88H) for touring.
They recommend the following for "all season/highway"
RainForce MX4, X-one or Symmetry ( all 185/70R14).  By 
my calculations a 185/70R14 is about the same diameter as the
165R14s that they put on the car originally and 20 mm (about 3/4")
wider. >>

I've put these (well, Pirellis) on my '72 roadster's Rostyles and found them 
great.  But I have a question for the list--I have read you shouldn't go up 
in diameter as far as a 185/70 with wires.  True?

Jay Donoghue
72B
72B-GT
66 Mustang >>


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In a message dated 8/29/00 4:39:50 AM, schauss@worldnet.att.net writes:

<< For the MGB, the Michelin web page recommends 185/70-R14s 
(Energy MXV4 - speed rating 88H) for touring.
They recommend the following for "all season/highway"
RainForce MX4, X-one or Symmetry ( all 185/70R14).  By 
my calculations a 185/70R14 is about the same diameter as the
165R14s that they put on the car originally and 20 mm (about 3/4")
wider. >>

I've put these (well, Pirellis) on my '72 roadster's Rostyles and found them 
great.  But I have a question for the list--I have read you shouldn't go up 
in diameter as far as a 185/70 with wires.  True?

Jay Donoghue
72B
72B-GT
66 Mustang

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