Discoveringcomfort
Member Since: 16 Sep 2015
Location: Berkshire
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Quote:The insurers would have more of an issue with load rating than speed rating IMO...e.g. I had the older MTRs with a 99mph speed rating ... they accepted them on the basis that I shouldn't be doing that speed in any case.
I was under the impression that it is illegal to run tyres with a lower speed rating than the manufacturer original spec? Thus all the D1/2s on knobbly retreads are all illegal? Series 1 V8
Series 2 Hibrid V8
Discovery 3 HSE V8
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 15th Oct 2020 11:55 am |
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L319
Member Since: 14 Dec 2013
Location: Herefordshire
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The construction & use regulations as far as I have read , require the tyre to be suitable for the use it is being put , which in my opinion is open to a lot of interpretation . I think it is so phrased to cover the situation that as cars get older the original tyre spec. may not be available . I think the insurers have more influence on what is acceptable
Before I retired , I asked at work why we ( Land Rover) were putting higher speed rated tyres , H to V, on a model year update ,ie same vehicle, cost , it was as simple as that . The manufactures were making more of the higher rated tyres so the price reduced. The H rated would in this instance be more than adequate.
All this of course, does not help the average user.
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| 15th Oct 2020 12:10 pm |
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al cope
Member Since: 08 Nov 2005
Location: Oldbury, WM
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and to add to ^^, quite a bit of the original type spec/choice is determined by what the tyre manufactuers are making and can supply to the car manufacturers at the time.
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| 15th Oct 2020 3:07 pm |
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