Thread: D4 on 35"?

Yes no mods

Will do another test and take photo. Problem is somewhere along the line the bump stop height seems to have changed.

Mine would appear to have the larger ones even though it's a 2010 and other's have thought it was a 2012 onwards change.

Extra low setting on llams causing bump stop hit and automatic height raise is a good indication you have the larger ones.

I can understand 35s on a play/serious offroader, but on a touring vehicle, sorry I don't get it, imagin getting on the sat phone, yeah g'day, D4 owner.....is that dopey tyres in Tom Price,

tyre place..........yes mate,

D4 owner.....I'm after a 35/11/18 BFG for me D4,

tyre place....hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Do you expect any different a reply from a 265 60 18, 285 60 18 or 275 65 18? I wouldn't.

Originally Posted by Redback

I can understand 35s on a play/serious offroader, but on a touring vehicle, sorry I don't get it, imagin getting on the sat phone, yeah g'day, D4 owner.....is that dopey tyres in Tom Price,

tyre place..........yes mate,

D4 owner.....I'm after a 35/11/18 BFG for me D4,

tyre place....hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

And yet, like they did for me up north, they trucked me up the tyre size I needed. They'd have air freighted if desired overnight, for a reasonable $100 more. Now I do get your point, but if you do a tyre, you can plan/ring ahead to have one there for when you arrive at the next convenient tyre stop. I had the same issue with the rubbish 255/55/19, hence one reason why people go down to 18s amongst many others.

Originally Posted by Redback

...is that dopey tyres in Tom Price,

Might be very close to the mark with that comment

I will imagine even 17s will be rare up there, which is what we'll be touring on, 245/70/17 Bridgestones and I think we'll need one trucked in if we destroy one, so serious

My point was, 35s are overkill on a touring vehicle regardless of make.

Standard landcruiser and prado sizes are not too bad, which is one of the reasons I run 265/65/17.

I got a 285/60 R18 off the shelf in Darwin so that is also a reasonable size as I think some people use them on 200 series. Only problem, it was a Dunlop but still AT and similar tread to D697, just not LT.