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Eastern Wheel Works in Melbourne will do them for $150 ea including shipping from your place to Melboune and back when finished.Quote:
Originally Posted by alan48
The actual work comprised $50 for the 8" rim and $80 to remove your old rim and put the new one on.
Garry
Not so much the tyres but when you look at the tyre + rim packageQuote:
Originally Posted by garrycol
The coopers are $481 each in Perth =$2405
even if I could get the old centres fitted to 8" rims for $150 each ( no chance in Perth) that would be another $750 + cost to remove the tyres that are on. approx. $20 each
adds up to $3255. I can get the whole lot shipped for less than that and still have the 5 originals to sell on if I want.
The tyres are all imported any way so I am not effecting any local manufacturers makes sense to me
Ian
I would like to see your breakdown of costs - seems a bit light on to me. If the goods are coming via seafreight you will need a customs/clearance broker which will add to your costs - likewise have you included the Customs Admin fee.
However if you can get them cleared and delivered to your door for $3000 then I would be going for it.
Cheers
Garry
All this tyre talk has been going on for a while now.
What I do know is going for 8 inch wide rims and doing it on standard wheel centres with the extra off set to the outside of the vehicle does a few things.
Opens choice of tyres in 16 inch, keeps appearance looking original, no more wheel foot step damage and keeps kingpin, scrub radius standard with slightly larger diameter tyres and slightly wider tyres.
Garrycol is running a good allrounder as described in earlier posts in this thread and I am running a very offroad Simex as described in earlier posts.
Off road wise my tyres do very much have the goods, but are noisey on the road and flat spot a lot until they warm up after about 3 to 4 Ks.......not very good if you are using the 101 just to get the milk from the corner shop.
I think brand /tread pattern etc garrycol has nailed it for general useage.
Both our tyres cost near the same.
I do know I will not be going back to Bar Treads or MRFs or cheapie similar.
The wear rate with my full on muddies on hard roads is still much better than a bar tread and therefore the extra cost of the current tyres I have does not worry me.
The wider more modern flexible tyres do improve handling and ride making the vehicle safer.
Pics Of Garrys and my tyres side by side.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...014/03/278.jpg
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...014/03/279.jpg
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...014/03/280.jpg
Costwise 5 x rims & tyres including freight approx. $2,500 + 5% duty + 10% gst =$ 2887 + a couple of hundred lodgement and clearance costsQuote:
Originally Posted by garrycol
= approx. $3,100
If I got 2 sets the freight would be about $150 cheaper per set and the customs fees would be split over 2 sets so total cost would be maybe $2,900 or so.
Ian
Then I would definitely be doing what you are doing :)
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Originally Posted by spongie
Yes we could do that . I just surfed by to post up a picture of my 101, as I said I would. So here it is with the YS tyres on.
Steve
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Someone may be interested in these Land Rover FC109 Tyres in Gympie, QLD | eBay
Until recently these tyres were my everyday tyres - worked great but do wear a bit quick. The tread has large blocks with smaller blocks on top - the top block wear pretty quickly and then wear slows one you hit the main blocks. Mine are 2/3 worn after about 20,000km.
Garry
occasional supply of Michelin 255x100R16 XZL with delivery km $500 each including Iveco tubeless split rim , ( I reckon you could weld a rover centre into the Iveco Rim )
toward the bottom of the page
Wheel & Tyre Options - TravelTrucks
Just seeing the last post prompted me to start looking for alternatives, and I stumbled across these.... Think they're Italian, and I also think they're remoulded on Michelin cases.... They're called 'Lerma Gomme 4x4 Good Rider M+S 255/100 R16'. Here's a pic..
