{"id":72,"date":"2012-06-05T08:02:39","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T06:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/puma\/?p=72"},"modified":"2012-06-05T08:02:39","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T06:02:39","slug":"tyres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/puma.retro.co.za\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"Tyres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/pumapages\/manual\/PAGE22.JPG\">stock Puma tyres<\/a> were 14 inch Pirelli CN36, 185\/70 in front and 195\/70 at the rear.<\/p>\n<p>I previously found that the Puma is so light that it tends to aquaplane with wide tyres &#8212; instead of pushing the water out of the threads you just go over it. Unsafe, in a very interesting way. So I&#8217;d prefer to go with a narrower tyre. 185\/65s are readily available because they fit on City Golfs.<\/p>\n<p>Using the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carbibles.com\/tyre_bible_pg4.html\">Wheel &amp; Tyre Bible<\/a>, the rolling diameter of a 185\/70 is 1853mm and a 195\/70 is 1895mm.<\/p>\n<p>1. Rear: 185\/65 have a rolling diameter of 1798mm. So for the same engine revs I&#8217;ll go 5% slower than the Puma specs.<\/p>\n<p>2. Front: The stock Beetle wheel is (I think) 165\/80 R15 with a diameter of 1945mm. This means my speedo (assuming an original Beetle speedo) will be out (high) by 8%.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The stock Puma tyres were 14 inch Pirelli CN36, 185\/70 in front and 195\/70 at the rear. I previously found that the Puma is so light that it tends to aquaplane with wide tyres &#8212; instead of pushing the water &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/puma.retro.co.za\/?p=72\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/puma.retro.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/puma.retro.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/puma.retro.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/puma.retro.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/puma.retro.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/puma.retro.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79,"href":"http:\/\/puma.retro.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/puma.retro.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/puma.retro.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/puma.retro.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}