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Preferred Tyres 140-160

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posted by  Sil on  Mon Apr 11 07:27 CST 2011
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I never understood Volvo's tire philosophies back then, whereby many of their cars ended up woefully under-rubbered.

By American standards, that would certainly be the case. I wonder if Sweden's being big ice and snow country and, especially at that time, still having lots of gravel roads that would get nice and muddy when the thaw set in, had anything to do with it. That's why, in winter here in Maine, I run 165R15s snow tires on my 142 and go unconcerned where AWDs with fat tires fear to tread.

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‘62 PV544 (B20, M41), '71 142E (Ex-automatic, now carbed), '93 240 Classic Wagon.






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