Limpopo
Member Since: 04 Feb 2006
Location: Johannesburg
Posts: 30
  
|
I'm looking for advice on tyres. Before you haul me off to all the other references (i've read many on this forum) I need answers on two specific points:
* How big a profile can we employ before we run into issues of speed and distance (if I'm on 60 profile 255s now, can I safely go to 70 / 255s, or higher?). Is anything else affected? I raise this because I find the car difficult in sand unless the tyres are one bar or less, and that's way below what the LR Experience boys here recommend.
* Also, because I'm not wealthy enough to buy two sets of wheels / tyres, it's important I buy the right tyres for me. Again, like many, I find the standard tyres too weak for substantial off road work - not even sharp stones holed the tread on two occasions during out last holiday - therefore I need an all-terrain tyre. But neither do I want to raise noise levels or affect the wonderful ride and smoothness of the vehicle. What, in the experience of this great forum, is the most refined AT tyre.
Once I know what to buy, I'll try to find it. To my knowledge, you can't get any non-standard, standard-sized tyre (if you know what I mean) for a V8 SE (18 inch) in South Africa. And remember you can't fit 17s on a V8, even if you found the money for spare rims.
The car has done 19,300 km with even wear on Wranglers. I estimate another 10,000 will finish them. That's just one holiday and a bit of city driving down here, so it's important I plan ahead.
I thank you in advance for your help and patience. Must look at it from the bright side...
|
 16th May 2007 4:17 pm |
|
|
