Thread: Dunlop 225 95 r16 road grippers Defender 110

You bought them direct from a Toyota dealer? I didn't think of that, a tyre shop here is selling them for 140ea inc fitting, balancing and tube so not all that bad.
I was going to buy a set a couple months back but got an even better price on pretty much new Bridgestone MT's in 235/85, couldn't pass it up.

Yep right from a dealership. You can find good deals, especially if it's a gov fleet buy, they have loads to move on. For example mine, (not tubed btw) were fitted to gov trucks for SES. But the gov fleet are, on a fleet management plan from an external fleet management company, that includes fuel, servicing etc. But importantly, they will only use a certain brand of tyre on the fleet company's plan, so if that's a different brand to what the vichle ships with they will change it from new at the dealership. That's when we can get the good deals.

Road Grippers eh.....that drags up some memories...one tough tyre. Use to buy them in 7.50 x 16 by the bucket load for a fleet of Landcruisers which never saw much bitumen.

I have the 7.50 X 16's fitted to my Defender, and several Series Land Rovers.

DSCN4293 by Colin Radley, on Flickr

DSCN4960 by Colin Radley, on Flickr

Sourced from tyre garages & private sales. 7.50 X 16 hard to come by now.

Best of luck selling the Toyota Steelies, mine all came on new split rims, couldn't give them away as there were so many in the market.


Colin

Yeah, no interest yet, but I'm hoping someone might want them for a trailer or to take their car back to stock look. What are pressures do you run the 7.50s?

Originally Posted by gromit

I have the 7.50 X 16's fitted to my Defender, and several Series Land Rovers.

DSCN4293 by Colin Radley, on Flickr

DSCN4960 by Colin Radley, on Flickr

Sourced from tyre garages & private sales. 7.50 X 16 hard to come by now.

Best of luck selling the Toyota Steelies, mine all came on new split rims, couldn't give them away as there were so many in the market.


Colin

Originally Posted by Landy Red

Yeah, no interest yet, but I'm hoping someone might want them for a trailer or to take their car back to stock look. What are pressures do you run the 7.50s?

I just run the standard tyre pressures.

Colin

Okay, for anyone interested, I took these out 4wdriving on the weekend. I just did a track near where I live that heads up Mt Huxley, central west Tasmania. It's a reasonably easy/ medium track but with a couple of very steep and slippery sections after rain (which is pretty much every day around here.) There are a couple of creeks to cross, and some water sections, but no real mud to speak of. Not a 'hard' track by any means, but low range all the way, steep sections, great views and a couple of little sections that are a good test to compare with previous tyres I've had.

I used 25psi front and rear and didn't need to go lower. They found the bottom in some wet sections that were deep enough to have water splashing over bonnet. I was most impressed with their grip going up steep/slippery sections. Especially so over rock, and loose rock that moves about if you try to go too quickly. I really liked how I could put the tyre exactly where I wanted to because they are so narrow; a real sense of precision!

They also kept the gearing just right, 1st low range crawling downhill was spot on. I'm comparing to the 255s here, which I feel just want to 'run a way' a tiny bit. The 225s also felt like they'd 'lock' into ruts well. Being so thin, I wasn't worried the side walls were going to get torn through, because they weren't touching the sides of ruts (left from much wider tyres everyone else seems to run.)

Best thing though: zero mud splattered up sides of car! Another bonus is these tyres have taken fuel consumption back to 10l per 100k. Makes calculating range much easier.

I will finish by adding, I have recently installed a Detroit locker to my rear. I have a very expensive set of 255s in the shed. One could save a lot of money on wheels and tyres, and instead spend the same or less, on a detroit locker and these tyres, and get IMHO just as good offroad performance than fitting 255s and new wheels. The upside is that standard wheels can be used and maintain stock look, street performance is great, and increased clearance achieved over stock too.