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Re: Anybody use 175R14?

To: eric@erickson.on.net
Subject: Re: Anybody use 175R14?
From: Carl Elliott <grunt2@adelphia.net>
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2000 18:46:51 -0500
I run the 185s on my BGT and really like them, They are on wire wheels.
CarlE.

eric@erickson.on.net wrote:

> ENrique  wrote:
> >
> > Hi MG Fans, I am having a hard time finding new 165R14 locally. I know I
> > can get them at Coker for 84$ a piece but after bringing them down to
> > Bolivia the cost is pretty steep. Anyhow, I wonder if anybody is using
> > 175R14?
> >
>
> Ha!  If you want five good ones I could ship them to America for you - they 
>are
> just sitting there :-)
>
> I replaced my 165R14's with 175R14's then realised that these were almost as 
>bad/
> skinny... so I dumped them after a few months and went as wide as my poor wire
> wheels would take (just)... 185R14/60.
>
> Now that I have replaced the wires with Rostyles I want to immediately go to
> 195R14 but common sense and my accountant says 12 months is too soon to throw
> away my expensive Yokohama A509s just yet... get another few months out of 
>them
> first.
>
> So to answer the gist of your question... apart from extra-originality (love
> those skinny tyres) sake... go for the 175R14 - but LUST aft 205!
>
> Eric
> '68MGB MkII

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