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Chat & Social => The Bar - General Chat => Topic started by: blackbob on May 10, 2006, 07:49:40

Title: obsession with tyres
Post by: blackbob on May 10, 2006, 07:49:40

why do most people on the forum have an obsession with big tyres
i think it takes the chalange out of off roading if you have the ultimate tyre that goes anywhere
 you tend to loose the skill in driving
my beach buggy was 2wd and would go the same places that a 4x4 could with a little perswasion with stanard tyres
also you dont break your drive train so readely







(sorry about spelling)

Title: obsession with tyres
Post by: gtomo2 on May 10, 2006, 07:53:00

Have standerd tyres on my rr and not really had any problems with them. But have pulled another rr out of the mud at sibbertoft and he had mud tyres on. :D

Title: obsession with tyres
Post by: Manicminer on May 10, 2006, 08:51:59

Big  tall tyres will help lift the diffs higher off the ground and allow you to travel down deeper ruts - until the ruts get even deeper :wink:

Title: obsession with tyres
Post by: WishIhadaLandy on May 10, 2006, 08:55:26

standard size but better tread pattern, thats what you want.

Title: obsession with tyres
Post by: Neil Jones on May 10, 2006, 09:16:38

I have got 7.50x16's on my SWB, does that count?

Title: obsession with tyres
Post by: Tyke on May 10, 2006, 09:21:53

Standard Tyres . . . . .  Bah Humbug . . . . . jack it up and get big wheels in it  :twisted:

Title: obsession with tyres
Post by: paul_humphreys on May 10, 2006, 09:29:46

Quote from: "WishIhadaLandy"

standard size but better tread pattern, thats what you want.

Thats just what I have.

Paul

Title: obsession with tyres
Post by: sparkes on May 10, 2006, 09:38:34

Agree with Paul and Tyke so no option in the pole for an answer

Title: obsession with tyres
Post by: PUX on May 10, 2006, 10:37:10

Quote from: "Tyke"

Standard Tyres . . . . .  Bah Humbug . . . . . jack it up and get big wheels in it  :twisted:

im with tyke  :lol:  but hey we all have a diffrent opinon, like u said i have seen people go places with small/standard tyres :wink:

Title: obsession with tyres
Post by: Edge on May 10, 2006, 11:39:07

The whole point of lifting a vehicle is to fit bigger tyres :wink: or else your just wasting money/time on doin a job that doesnt need doin. Bigger tyres give more ground clearance which in turn saves...or helps save....getting stuck/damage.

Title: obsession with tyres
Post by: blackbob on May 10, 2006, 13:10:02

Quote from: "Tyke"

Standard Tyres . . . . .  Bah Humbug . . . . . jack it up and get big wheels in it  :twisted:

if i jack it up i wont be able to get in its hard enough now :D

Title: obsession with tyres
Post by: josh 109 on May 11, 2006, 20:50:01

yeah but just think of the size tyre u could fit on that!  8)  8)

Title: obsession with tyres
Post by: Edge on May 11, 2006, 20:58:38

I agree, Blackbob you gotta stick enormous tyres on it matey..... it will look absolutely awesome 8) . Proper Monster-Truck tyres :D  :D .

Title: obsession with tyres
Post by: Old Warthog on May 11, 2006, 20:59:44

Big tyres, since I belted my diff on Derbyshire rocks.  Just done the same route without horrible expensive banging/scraping noises from underneath 8)

Title: Re: obsession with tyres
Post by: LandRoger on May 11, 2006, 22:52:24

Quote from: "blackbob"

why do most people on the forum have an obsession with big tyres
i think it takes the chalange out of off roading if you have the ultimate tyre that goes anywhere
 you tend to loose the skill in driving
my beach buggy was 2wd and would go the same places that a 4x4 could with a little perswasion with stanard tyres
also you dont break your drive train so readely

What absolute nonsense - no 2wd can go the same places as a 4x4,
Unless the 4x4 is being driven by a novice or numscull,Please keep it real!!!
dont give a toss how much perswasion? you gave it ,it just not feasable,





(sorry about spelling)

Title: obsession with tyres
Post by: Range Rover Blues on May 12, 2006, 00:58:04

I have big tyres for mud/bad weather but these really sap the power of the car and it handles pretty scarily now they have softened up so I use ATs on road and gentle lanes that are standard height but a little wider.

I don't agree that a lifted car on standard tyres is pointless at all, it still improves approach, departure and breakover.  the only thing to lift a diff is big tyres so it depends what you are driving on.  If it deep ruts or jacked rocks you need big tyres, if it's flat soft ground, up and down gradients then it's not so important as the high C of G is a handicap.