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Selecting Bus Rated Tires
Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 7:14 am
by Randy in Maine
Here is a good link on how to select appropriate tires for your bus. Some good info in there.
http://busdepot.com/details/tires.jsp
Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 2:20 pm
by hambone
I put these on my rolling soup can. Very good tires, excellent traction on all surfaces, firm ride, not much road noise. About $100 per tire, installed. I'm not easy on my tires either; these are well suited for rough conditions.
http://www.lesschwab.com/tires/light_tr ... cat_as.asp
Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 3:45 pm
by DurocShark
Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 1:13 pm
by hambone
From Ratwell, interesting, because that's what Schwab has available (195)...I lucked out I guess:
"So mounting a 185R14 tire to a 5" wide rim isn't so bad after all but the 195R14 tire is probably a better choice if you have a 68-70 bus with 5" rims."
Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 10:11 am
by mattg
I put on the cooper srm II about 1.5 years ago and have been happy with their performance so far.
Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 11:32 am
by hambone
Cooper makes nice tires.
Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 11:38 am
by mattg
yeah I just put a set on my honda element - they make a nice tire and tend to a little less pricey as well which saves a little cash for other things.
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 2:03 am
by NWbuspilot
I went with the Hankook RA08s. A bit spendy, but so far they've been worth it.
http://ssl.delti.com/cgi-bin/details.pl ... Country=US
I got America's Tire/Discount Tire to order them in and match the online price + the $10 shipping for each tire.
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 8:43 am
by Ritter
+1.
HUGE improvement over the passenger tires that were on it.