Olympic Steeltrek Tyres

**Chris078** · 21st August 2015, 11:19 AM

Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

Just like the plastic safety cover on a blasting cap, it hardly looks worth mentioning either....

exactly. It may not look like much, but it does a very important and vital service. There is a reason why they were invented/introduced.

End of the day, yep, you can put a tubeless on a tubed rim and either run it with a tube or without.

however, you do run the risk of a tyre rolling off the rim, and your insurer telling you to take a hike, if that contributed to the accident.

Your choice.

**DeeJay** · 21st August 2015, 05:23 PM

Took me a while to find this pic..
Delaminated @ 100kph - hot day.

**John H** · 21st August 2015, 06:02 PM

Originally Posted by atwood

I also have Steeltreks - old, and they work every day on rough terrain - gravel and potholes are the norm. I have replaced two tubes and patched another two as a result of punctures. There's still plenty of tread, but I have no desire to explode one.
I have stumbled on a brand new set of Dunlop road grippers in the appropriate size - they were delivered on a new LandCruiser Workmate and immediately discarded. Apologies if this is a silly question - but can't I put tubes in them and fit them on the Perentie wheels?

Im running road grippers(for similar reasons) with tubes,with no issues as of yet.

LandroverScott · 21st August 2015, 06:32 PM

Just bought some more Michelin XZL $210 incl GST CHEAP insurance

**atwood** · 21st August 2015, 08:19 PM

OK decision made. The beast gets Road Grippers and keeps the tubes..... Main reason - New LandCruiser owners must have too much money .... I get 4 brand new tyres and rims for $200. Gotta do that I think!

**Phil B** · 22nd August 2015, 05:45 AM

4 brand new tyres and rims for $200? I assume that is each, and even so that is suspiciously cheap
Are you sure the tyres are new, as in manufactured in 2014/2015?

**Beery** · 22nd August 2015, 06:25 AM

Originally Posted by LandroverScott

Just bought some more Michelin XZL $210 incl GST CHEAP insurance

Thats a good price. I paid $270 fitted. Where did you get them?

LandroverScott · 22nd August 2015, 07:06 AM

Originally Posted by Beery

Thats a good price. I paid $270 fitted. Where did you get them?

HI, just my local Michelin dealer in Ballarat, nothing special.....

**JDNSW** · 22nd August 2015, 10:43 AM

Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

Tubeless tyres appeared around 1950.
Safety rims were introduced to Australia in about 1970.
.......

Not real accurate - they were fitted to my father's Australian built Simca V8 in 1959 - but it had tubed tyres, and they were in no way associated with tubeless tyres.

John

**JDNSW** · 22nd August 2015, 10:48 AM

Originally Posted by Chris078

exactly. It may not look like much, but it does a very important and vital service. There is a reason why they were invented/introduced.

End of the day, yep, you can put a tubeless on a tubed rim and either run it with a tube or without.

however, you do run the risk of a tyre rolling off the rim, and your insurer telling you to take a hike, if that contributed to the accident.

Your choice.

Since tubeless tyres were available and fitted on occasion to Series 2a Landrovers, which had ceased to be in production by the time these rims became accepted as standard with tubeless tyres, a successful denial of a claim by an insurer would be about as likely as one on the grounds that the vehicle only had single circuit brakes.

John

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