Tires, oh tires...
Tires, tires, tires I am trying to resist my urge to rant about this most devastating and illogical modern convinces. As long as you are depending on these you will never be free.
I do these things to myself, I do what I know is wrong, like buying another vehicle held up by these air filled rubber/petro donuts. Alright, I just don't like tires but it is part of the vanlife, one day I will step away from these contraptions and live with much less stress.
So what's bringing this up is that the G20 van needed tires when I bought it, I didn't look too close but I thought they would be fine for a while but after a closer look they are not even close to being safe. So I spent a few days shopping for tires to find out a few things, one of those was today in 2017 fifteen inch wheels are becoming obsolete, retailers don't keep a good stock of new tires and used tires are hard to come by. Going up to 16" gives you more options but I was able to source the LT235/75R15 tires off eBay, a set of 4 for $201.70.
Edit: Or I didn't buy those tires because they said it as an inventory issue, full refund as issued but that doesn't help me, tires....
I do these things to myself, I do what I know is wrong, like buying another vehicle held up by these air filled rubber/petro donuts. Alright, I just don't like tires but it is part of the vanlife, one day I will step away from these contraptions and live with much less stress.
So what's bringing this up is that the G20 van needed tires when I bought it, I didn't look too close but I thought they would be fine for a while but after a closer look they are not even close to being safe. So I spent a few days shopping for tires to find out a few things, one of those was today in 2017 fifteen inch wheels are becoming obsolete, retailers don't keep a good stock of new tires and used tires are hard to come by. Going up to 16" gives you more options but I was able to source the LT235/75R15 tires off eBay, a set of 4 for $201.70.
Edit: Or I didn't buy those tires because they said it as an inventory issue, full refund as issued but that doesn't help me, tires....
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