New tires fitted on my '99 3.0 V6 24V

[José V. Gavilá]

Hello!

Well, I know this question should have been done BEFORE but, anyway, I had to fit them today (work had prevented doing it earlier  ) as tomorrow all family will go for a trip. And old tires were just too bad to continue with them.

So I have called my trusty tire garage and have found that the only available tire close to the one I needed was  205/65 R15 95H. My question is due to an error in the technical sheet of my car, as it specifies no less than 205/65 R15 100H. To make things worse, old tires were 215/65 R15 96H. So in last MOT I had some problems but it finally seemed they were OK.

As you can see, fitted ones are OK in dimmensions but lower on load capacity (100 vs 95). But my mechanic has told me that 100 was used in small trucks, so it should be an error. He had not 96H available so I have taken 95H as the closest one... I have seen some on-line tire selector specifies 94H in 205 measure for my Espace, so 95H could be OK.

What do you think?

Of course, even being a bit thinner, car now behaves perfectly. They have checked also alignment with a laser system and was right on the spot.

Regards,

JOSE

[Martin Tyas]

Hi Jose

According to the technical bulletin on approved tyres, a copy of which I have attached, the 205/65 R15 tyres should be 94T rated.

The load and speed rating charts below show what each of the values represents. So according to those figures the tyres you now have fitted are rated at 20kg higher load capacity and 20Km/h faster maximum speed rated than those approved by Renault for the Espace. For info I have a 2.2dCi Grand and it is also fitted with 95 load rated tyres

Load Rating
90 = 600kg
91 = 615kg
92 = 630kg
93 = 650kg
94 = 670kg
95 = 690kg
96 = 710kg
97 = 730kg
98 = 750kg
99 = 775kg
100 = 800kg

Speed Rating
S = 180 Km/h
T = 190
U = 200
H = 210
V = 240
W = 270
Y = 300

Martin

[José V. Gavilá]

Hi Martin,

Hi Jose

According to the technical bulletin on approved tyres, a copy of which I have attached, the 205/65 R15 tyres should be 94T rated.

The load and speed rating charts below show what each of the values represents. So according to those figures the tyres you now have fitted are rated at 20kg higher load capacity and 20Km/h faster maximum speed rated than those approved by Renault for the Espace. For info I have a 2.2dCi Grand and it is also fitted with 95 load rated tyres

Load Rating
90 = 600kg
91 = 615kg
92 = 630kg
93 = 650kg
94 = 670kg
95 = 690kg
96 = 710kg
97 = 730kg
98 = 750kg
99 = 775kg
100 = 800kg

Speed Rating
S = 180 Km/h
T = 190
U = 200
H = 210
V = 240
W = 270
Y = 300

Martin

Thanks for the accurate info and sorry for delay answering back. Yes, it seems 95H are good enough 

Well, now for the next problem: stalling  (more about it in a sepparate message)

Regards,

JOSE