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On our desert trips it has always been the tubed tyres that have given the biggest problems.
Running low pressures they are prone to sand grains getting in and causing punctures or the tubes just wearing through, as others have said getting decent tubes is problematic (and expensive), everyone only seem to carry the Taiwanese condom tubes.
Fixing a few punctures is not something to look forward to at the end of each day.
Spinning the rim in the tyre also seems to be more of a problem when tubed.
We have always carried a second spare as well as tubes, beadbreaker (R&R) and a plug repair kit.
Touch wood no punctures on the last 4 trips, on my tubeless but maybe 8 - 10 (per trip) for each with tubes.
Martyn
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I must be different, on the second trip in the td5 defender with the alloy wheels we did a tyre a the Plenty and schredded it. took the wheel into Boullia to get a servo to take the tyre off and it took over an hour on the tyre removal machine. After that I bought some steel rims off an earlier defender and put tubes in them. That was in 2001. I still change the wheels over every trip and in the time since with a trip every year have only had one puncture. I have no trouble breaking beads or mending tubed tyres . We do desert trips to stoney and rocky tracks and would prefer tubed tyres only for the fact of the earlier problems of not being able to remove a tyre of the alloy rims.
Lindsay.
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To tube or not to tube.
Thank guys for sharing your extensive desert crossing experience. MMMM I need to think about this one, maybe try some tyre changes at home.
cheers simmo
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I concur with Bushie.
I run Disco 1 wheels on my Td5 for our Edjit trips and had no punctures last time out. The alloys stay at home and look pretty for highway use. :D
Much easier to plug than remove tyre and then patch.
