D4 Suspension Problem

sometimes in the middle of Australia with thousands of km left to travel on your journey it is not possible to fit and match an OEM specified tyre or in the case of a lot of members here non OEM sizes. how many of you can get the tyre you want in the bush?

twice now I havent been able to in Roxby Downs. neither can you get much choice in the nearby town centres....not even in the Flinders ranges.

you have to take what choices are there for you.

to call someone in this forum dumb for driving on a non matched tyre out of necessity because the vehicles electronic counter measures can put it in an out of control situation is not really fair on the member who posted looking for help.

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Originally Posted by ramblingboy42

sometimes in the middle of Australia with thousands of km left to travel on your journey it is not possible to fit and match an OEM specified tyre or in the case of a lot of members here non OEM sizes. how many of you can get the tyre you want in the bush?

twice now I havent been able to in Roxby Downs. neither can you get much choice in the nearby town centres....not even in the Flinders ranges.

you have to take what choices are there for you.

to call someone in this forum dumb for driving on a non matched tyre out of necessity because the vehicles electronic counter measures can put it in an out of control situation is not really fair on the member who posted looking for help.

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I don’t know about you, the only guy in the middle of Gibb had 1x Chinese 20” tyre in his bush tyre shop. He claimed you won’t find any 20” in the Kimberly region without ordering them. Never the less, I did bring spares but of not matching pattern in hope I don’t need to use them. Who would have thought the rolling circumference can make significant difference if the sizing is the same.. to chew through 2 new At3w tyres in 3 weeks was gold!

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Originally Posted by ramblingboy42

to call someone in this forum dumb for driving on a non matched tyre out of necessity because the vehicles electronic counter measures can put it in an out of control situation is not really fair on the member who posted looking for help.

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Oddly enough I was responding to your comment which says "this quite concerns me , that having a different , though supposedly same size tyre fitted , can totally change the driving dynamics of the vehicle.

it concerns me to the point where my plans of re-entering the Land Rover fold may be completely shelved"

I was simply pointing out that regardless of your further comment regarding "vehicles electronic counter measures" driving with deliberately mismatched tyres is a (potentially severe and damaging) mechanical issue regardless of the electronics and I tried to explain *why*.

Sometimes in an emergency we need to do what we need to do, but generally you do it extremely carefully and only for as long as is absolutely necessary. Perhaps the characterization of "dumb" was un-called for, and I apologise for using that specific term.

And that's why you would choose a size and brand that is more common if you are going remote, I wouldn't be running 20" rubber bands anywhere far from a large town, plenty of options to drop down to 18" rims and tires.