Reply to "345 tires"

Unless you get really, really lucky, or are prepared to buy old rubber (not recommended), the 285/40-15 tires are available only from Kjell Jansson in Sweden or Roland Jaeckel in Germany. These are recent production tires from the Yokohama AVS Intermediate series. Brace yourself, because they are not cheap when you factor in the shipping, duties, brokerage fees, taxes, etc.

The 345/35-15 tires are occasionally available in North America from Pirelli in their P-Zero Giallo Asimmetrico series. They are still an "active product", but Pirelli only sends them to North America as "filler" if they have room left over in a container. As a result, they have only been arriving in very limited numbers (six pairs from last year's production run, I'm told). If you can't find them and are in a hurry, Kjell can probably supply them as well.

I have purchased a number of tires from Kjell, and found him to be very patient, knowledgeable, helpful and a real pleasure to deal with. I think we all owe him and the Swedish DeTomaso Club a debt for having had the foresight to purchase, stockpile and make these tires available for us.

Kjell Jansson, 08-541 370 40, reservdelspoolen@detomaso.nu
kjell.jansson@detomaso.se

Svenska DeTomaso-klubben
Kolgruvegatan 14
417 07 GÖTEBORG
Tel/fax 031-22 99 22