Identify These Tires

Anyone know where to find the lower profile whitewalls as seen below?

the only place I would know to even look would be Cocker Tires

Most of the low profile whitewalls I have seen were inserts.

Hobug wrote:Most of the low profile whitewalls I have seen were inserts.

I was thinking the same thing - porta-walls.

http://www.widewhitewalltires.com/2008Catalog/hi/09.htm
These guys use to have 135 whitewalls but I cant seem to find them.

Cool - I'll give them a call.

http://www.lucasclassictires.com/PORTAWALL_GUIDELINES.html

This is my old 61 porta walls all around. 135s up front and 165s in the back.

Those walls are awesome. I have never heard of those. When I get new tires for the bus, I may check into those. Anyone seen a bus with them?

panic_fan wrote:Those walls are awesome. I have never heard of those. When I get new tires for the bus, I may check into those. Anyone seen a bus with them?

Dude, don't put passenger tires on your bus. C rated light truck tires give you a much smoother and safer ride. I'm sure you have read the exhaustive Tire Sticky in the Bay forum of the Samba. Now that I have switched to the proper weight load tires, I will never turn back. Just a bit of friendly advice

Treehive wrote:

panic_fan wrote:Those walls are awesome. I have never heard of those. When I get new tires for the bus, I may check into those. Anyone seen a bus with them?

Dude, don't put passenger tires on your bus. C rated light truck tires give you a much smoother and safer ride. I'm sure you have read the exhaustive Tire Sticky in the Bay forum of the Samba. Now that I have switched to the proper weight load tires, I will never turn back. Just a bit of friendly advice

X2!
Make sure you get light truck tires.

Yea I have tried to read thru the tire sticky...all the whining back and forth kinda annoyed me. Very informative but sometimes tough to sift thru.
I will definitly get the correct tires when I replace them. I guess the portawalls can only be used on passenger tires?

Porta walls will go on anything. Just be aware they take a little to get them to seat properly

what would be the rating for bus tires (what is the two digit number?)

Attorney Isaiah Loophole wrote:what would be the rating for bus tires (what is the two digit number?)

VW recommends a tire with a max load rating of at least 1540 lbs for buses. Here is all the info of the side of my new tires. "Yokohama Super Van 356 185R14 8P, they have a max load of 1850 lbs".

If someone wants to roll their bus with tires that meet VW recommendations, I found there are not a lot of options out there in a 14" tire. I had to be firm with the tire salesman about exactly what I wanted, and the tires had to be shipped in from another state. I have seen too many pics of buses and Vanagons with blown out passenger tires to risk putting anything else on my baby.

PS

sorry to hijack the thread

Yeah my bus wont have the recommended tires on it. They just dont sell them for lowered buses. 195/50/15 up front and 195/60/15 in the back 82 and 88 ratings. Oh well

Paint your own whitewalls....
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/WHITE-WALL-TIRE-PAINT-WHITEWALL-VINTAGE-PARTS-PORTAWALL_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trkparmsZ72Q3a1205Q7c39Q3a1Q7c66Q3a2Q7c65Q3a12Q7c240Q3a1318QQ_trksidZp3286Q2ec0Q2em14QQhashZitem330272821152QQitemZ330272821152

That's really cool. I wonder how they were able to make the perfect circle around the tire.

and another paint your own option:
umm plastic primer