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RE: tyre size

To: 'Péter Bóna' <Peter.Bona@vodafone.hu>,
Subject: RE: tyre size
From: Richard Gosling <richard.gosling@exprogroup.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 15:28:45 +0100
Peter said:

...our right, I confused two different things.
exactly it is like this in the manual:

Tyres   5.20S-13 Tubeless
        1.45-13 Radial ply (optional)

the 5.2 inch is equal to 132 mm, so this may be a non-radial 132-13
tyre?....


Hmm, possible, but it sounds very skinny to me.  I had a look at some old
sales brochures (http://www.xs4all.nl/~ekieboom/spit/brochures.html), and
there is a Dutch Mk3 brochure that also mentions this 5.20S-13, although the
(British) MkIV brochure mentions the more usual 155-SR13 size.

It still amuses me that a system can have evolved that uses metric for the
tread width, and inches for the rim size, within the same specification...

Richard & Daffy

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