tyres

[paul and sam]

can anyone  help i have looked at tyre sises stickey and am confused :(blackeye):  i have standard rims on a mk 1 disco and am looking for  new tyres after my wife had a tyre look as if it has rolled off the rim coming home this evening   :(scared):  they are bronko (f'@-+ing tyres) and now dont know what to replace them with ........      we are going to moroco in april this year and  i am not sure what tyres to fit and thoughts on this  ..... many thanks in advance

[wheeler]

bf goodrich are a good make
size wise 235 75 r 16

[CNorman]

Discovfery 1s are 235 70 R16. Unless they are the really eary ones which were a different size 205something?

[driftwood]

tyres explained

http://www.chris-longhurst.com/carbibles/tyre_bible.html#aspectratio

[ChrisW]

What suspension set up do you have, standard, lifted (height) ?
What budget do you have?
What rim's will they go on, standard LR or aftermarket steels ?
Do you need mud terrain, all terrain or road biased?
Do you want new or remould?

[freeagent]

If you are going to Morocco this year, i'd get a set of premium brand A/T tyres, either BFG's or similar. You do NOT need mud tyres for a summer morocco trip, mud tyres are rubbish in sand and just dig you in.

you really want to use a new tyre, rather than re-moulds, the stone tracks in Morocco are tough on tyres, and will trash remoulds pretty quickly.

I went to Morocco last summer, and those running BFG A/T's probably had the best all round tyre.

If you are going to do some proper sand dune driving, you'll be looking at going down to around 14psi, so you need good tyres to be able to cope with that (deforms the sidewalls a lot)

there will be a lot of road driving on a Morocco trip, so something that behaves well on tarmac would be good.

i'd stick to the standard disco size, 235/70 R16... larger tyres will over-gear your truck quite a bit... not what you need for a long trip..

hope this helps........

[narked]

Aye, 205R16 on mine, though that could be more down to the fact that it's sitting on RRC rims rather than what it left the factory wearing. Just got myself 2 new tyres today, and the bloke in the tyre place tried his hardest to get me to go for the 235/70s he had in, possibly something to do with the fact that the ones he had in we're about 50% more expensive ;) "Oh but look at how much wider they are, all that extra grip". Just politely explained that I wanted 2 tyres the same size as my others, of a budget variety, as somewhere in the not too distant future I want to go for a set of new steels with bigger tyres all round, and it's pointless spending on decent tyres before then!

[Range Rover Blues]

I'd have fitted a pair of part-worn ones then, plenty about and not that expensive.

Personally I think 235/70 are a bit too much, originally LR recomended 225/75 for RRC but 235/70 is a more common size and therefore cheaper.

I know ours handled better on 225/75