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Yup. Had a similar problem after coming off the rio tinto road north of Tom price. Pressures back up for the road to exmouth and travelling along at 110 the suspension lowered and the warning light on. Pulled in and there was the flat tyre. Pretty impressive and came to a nice controlled stop before jacking up.

Originally Posted by shining

Never tried it. I would be cautious trying it on alloys. Anyone tried it?

A oldie but a goodie always carry a block of wood and drive onto the wood to gain clearance for the jack

Hi, I have a set of mud tyres that I use on my RRS, 265/70/17's or about 32 inch in the old scale. If my car was to lower to the bump stops, same as BSM's, will they foul on the inner of the wheel wells, what happens if this occurs whilst moving.

Has anyone had this experience?

Thanks Andrew

Originally Posted by kingo

Hi, I have a set of mud tyres that I use on my RRS, 265/70/17's or about 32 inch in the old scale. If my car was to lower to the bump stops, same as BSM's, will they foul on the inner of the wheel wells, what happens if this occurs whilst moving.

Has anyone had this experience?

Thanks Andrew

We had 265/70/17s on our D4 when the compressor failed, went to the bump stops, had no trouble moving to a flat spot(going up a steep hill) at the top, managed to get to offroad height and drive out, compressor failed for good at home.

You'll have no probs with this size.

Baz.

Kingo with a RRS you might, I remember talking to Jimmy Salsa and he reckoned the RRS rear wheel arch is quite different to a Disco and its much easier to touch larger than standard tyres to body work.

Ask Gordon (GOE) the question he knows more about RRS's off road then most anybody.

This is why I've installed a decent TPMS in my D4 (bought it from Landybits on here).

Very first trip Perth to Kalgoorlie, got a flat on right rear. Suspension tried to compensate by "levelling" the vehicle - until I started getting warnings about compressor overheating. Pulled over, discovered the flat and pumped up the tyre (wasn't completely flat) and managed to get home to Kalgoorlie without having to get the spare out on the side of the road. But next morning, found that the tyre was stuffed and had to replace it.

Cost of one new tyre was more than the cost of the TPMS.

And driving up onto the spare isn't a problem, even with alloys. Have done it many times (most Toyotas will not allow you to get the jack under them on one end or the other if you have a completely flat tyre).

The trick is to only drive up onto the tyre, and not the rim itself (as if you were trying to break the bead on your spare if it were deflated).

It is now mandatory in the USA for all vehicles to have flat tyre recognition, after the Ford Explorer problems.
Most manufacturers simply program the ABS to recognise the different rolling diameter of the flat vs inflated tyres.
That may be what the unknown symbol showed.

Regards Philip A