[T2] LRR tyres

[Bob]

I ran Michelens as long as I could
then the Michilen truck tires "Agilis"
now I have Hakapelidas on my 78 have the weight rating and seem to handle 
well.

Bob



On Thu, 4 Mar 2021, Nick Palmer wrote:

> The important thing is the load index which tells you how much weight you can stick on the tire and equates to stiffness of the side wall with the heavy weight of a bus, which heavily impacts handling.
>
> On my 1977 Riviera I used to run Yokohama 356 and the handling in a cross wind was so much better than on the incorrect passenger tires I inherited the bus with.
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> With just a little equipment and me my camper weighed in at 3300 lbs, so I figure as much as 4000 lbs fully loaded. You want to have 3 tires able to carry the load in case of a flat so you don’t get a cascading failure. So 4000/3 so at least 1333 lbs, making a minimum load index of at least 91. The Yokohama are more than 1800 so a good choice.
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> The 356 are still for sale but are not a winter tire if you care about driving in snow.
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> https://m.tirerack.com/tires/tires.jsp?tireMake=Yokohama&tireModel=Y356
>
> The Hancock RA18 are a M&S tire and they get great reviews because tread depth is deeper than the 356, about 3mm deeper, so they last long and they have basically the same load index. Bus Depot still stocks them.
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> https://www.busdepot.com/ra18
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> Richard Atwell has a great, if slightly dated, discussion here:
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> https://www.ratwell.com/technical/Tires.html
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> Happy bussin!
> ~ Nick
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