[Vwdiesel] Tire size conversion

[Roger Brown]

Libbybapa at wmconnect.com wrote:
> 
> I have some large tires that I would like to put on my soon to be 1.6TD
> vanagon.  They only measurements printed on the tires are 27 X 8.5 R 14.  They
> measure out to 27" tall and 8.5" wide.  Doing my best at converting this to the
> accepted standard measurement I get 215.9/76.5 R 14 or simplified 216/76 R 14.
> Can someone who knows doublecheck my math, I don't know if I'm converting  it
> correctly, and would like to use a nifty RPM tire size calculator.  TIA

Looks right to me:
	http://www.4crawler.com/4x4/4LoCalc.shtml

-- 
   Roger