Thread: Now which new tyres to get...

I realise different sizes but I think a lot can be inferred from the same brand/model of tyre of a different size.

What happened to your D3/D4 today?

hope it aids your deliberations

Originally Posted by AlexRS4

Brakes is why. Though you can fit 18s.

That and LR vehicles are bought by most people for luxury city and highway driving.

Other manufacturers can run OEM 18's with similar or more power,torque,etc,etc.

Infact, a mates late model V8TD Audi ran OEM 18's.Way more powerful than a D4,and pretty heavy.LC also comes to mind.

Brakes seem to be LR's excuse,but others get around it.Some blame TC,but the jury is out on that.

Correct,most LR's are sold for around town duties,but are still marketed as a heavy duty off road vehicle.

Although i wouldn't put new Defender in that category and it has 19" OEM wheels on some models.

Originally Posted by John_D4

VW Amarok? I’m sure there are more that’s just at the top of my head

umm,no,any others?

I was talking OEM?

Originally Posted by scarry

Other manufacturers can run OEM 18's with similar or more power,torque,etc,etc.

Infact, a mates late model V8TD Audi ran OEM 18's.Way more powerful than a D4,and pretty heavy.LC also comes to mind.

Brakes seem to be LR's excuse,but others get around it.Some blame TC,but the jury is out on that.

Correct,most LR's are sold for around town duties,but are still marketed as a heavy duty off road vehicle.

Getting OT a bit apologies. You can run 18s on a Disco4 aftermarket of course. Easy to do, plenty of options out there.

For LR it's marketing for sure. 19" looks better to most punters, they sell more cars that way. You can take a Disco pretty far off road on the 19" wheels anyway. Those who actually take their cars seriously off road AND are limited by the 19" tyres AND buy new, are rare - and really that's who the defender was for. LR have obviously recently seen that gap in the market for some buyers who are serious off roaders and buy new, but also want comfort, hence the new defender.

Originally Posted by scarry

umm,no,any others?

I was talking OEM?

So it seems that the original crappy website was a little hard to read. I didn’t read the bit about original tyre size being in bold and mistakenly thought the alternative sizes listed were the manufacturer’s sizes.

Interesting tho for me is why has most other manufacturers (except the xtrail) avoided 19”? 15, 16, 18” are good sizes, 20” also, why avoid 19”? 17” is used why not 19”?

Originally Posted by John_D4

So it seems that the original crappy website was a little hard to read. I didn’t read the bit about original tyre size being in bold and mistakenly thought the alternative sizes listed were the manufacturer’s sizes.

Interesting tho for me is why has most other manufacturers (except the xtrail) avoided 19”? 15, 16, 18” are good sizes, 20” also, why avoid 19”? 17” is used why not 19”?

Good guess would be lack of tyres available in that size,i presume,to suit road going, off road and commercially designed vehicles.?

As many have said,its very strange LR continue with that size,even for some models of new Defender.

The big engine defender has been checked by Lucky8 and the limit is 20s

Kinda a bit curious now. I compared 255 55 19 to 20” on a website. I found quite a few good options. Your right, why use 19”?

As a side note I know someone with 285 18’s on his D4, I’m curious to know if 285 50 20 would fit. That’s 4% bigger than the 255 55 19 which would make my speedo exact instead of under.