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Beetle tyre pressures

shaihulud · 2011-05-13T05:41:29+00:00

For years I've been inflating the tyres of Beetles to the 18 psi front and 28 psi rear that is specified in all of the manuals. I've never had a problem until now. Over the Easter weekend I loaned my Beetle to some Eastern States visitors to the Bug-in in Toodyay to compete in the motorkhana. FYI One of them won a trophy. It's the Army drab green one. Yesterday one of the tyres went flat and the tyre fitter told me that the leak was caused by sand getting in the bead area. He said that the tyre pressures that I used caused the problem as the pressures were for cross ply tyres only, not 165 x 15 radials and that were much too low He recommended 35 psi on all tyres. That seems a bit high. What do you have to say about this?

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bugmaniaar Officially Full-On Dubber

295 posts · joined Jun 2011 · 24 Jan 2013, 2:26 pm

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Tyre Shops🙅
When i had my tyres done awhile ago they couldn't even balance them,could fit them on there machine👎
Great info about the importance of pressures,i think i will spend some time testing what is best.
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snitz Wolfsburg Wizard

605 posts · joined Sep 2008 · 24 Jan 2013, 3:13 pm

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Getting your car back with stupid tyre pressures is one thing..When they stick shitty dirty weights on the outside of your new rims when you request them not to..grrr