Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site ariel.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!jlw From: jlw@ariel.UUCP (J.WOOD) Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: tire inflation pressures Message-ID: <992@ariel.UUCP> Date: Sat, 13-Jul-85 14:00:55 EDT Article-I.D.: ariel.992 Posted: Sat Jul 13 14:00:55 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 14-Jul-85 08:48:39 EDT References: <572@hlwpc.UUCP> <1916@sunybcs.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: AT&T-ISL, Holmdel, NJ Lines: 21 > Did your Malibu originally have METRIC radials. If not, this is the reason > for the change in preessure. Metrics have different load capacities than > the Alphanumeric series they replace. Wrongo. The reason `metric' tires have higher numbers on them is because the DOT does not allow a non-`metric' tire to have more than 32psi max stamped on its side. The `metrics' are allowed 35psi, therefore, they can claim a higher rating. I run the Goodyear European 205/60HR13 s on my RX-7 at 32psi cold all around and the Goodrich Comp T/As 195/60VR15 s on my wife's Volvo Wagon at 30 front and either 30 or 34 rear unloaded or loaded. Joseph L. Wood, III AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Holmdel (201) 834-3759titania!jlw