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Thanks. In the end, I booked it in with the local dealer to have 5 Generals put on with it's 24k service. $455 fitted, but using the dealer means I'll get their Leaseplan discount applied and they can sort the alingment out as well (Which was quoted at $128, so that seems to have gone up too!).Quote:
Originally Posted by muppo
Hi All
I had one of my managers have a quick look at this today and the most important thing about tyres is the load rating (speed rating is not really a concern here as we no longer have unlimited road speeds, that I know of maybe NT still does? but...), on the bottom right corner of the drivers door is the rating plate, the min load rating that the SE (I assume it will be the same across the S and HSE, in the tyre books it is) is legally allowed to use is 109T which means the tyre options are
OE Size 255/60R18 112H
Options 265/60R18 109T
(Discovery 3 SE TDV6, 4.0 V6, 4.4 V8)
Which means all of the major brands should have a tyre to match either one of these sizes. Cooper, Dunlop, Conti, Pirelli, Goodyear etc (note the Goodyear you can also get in an ATR Silent Armour)
Cheers
Paul
Just a quick question guys.
Is 265/**/** the widest you can fit on a D3? And if they do rub, where about?
No - you can fit a 285 x 60 x 18.
Some of the guys have these in Cooper LTZ's
Regards
Chuck
I like the look of these but am a bit nervous about how the extra width will be when deflated to around 20psi as there is not much clearance from the front shocks. Has anyone tried this out?
I don't think you can get them in the spare wheel space without deflating.
And even though they have LT in the tyre designation LTZ they are only listed as passenger construction not Light Truck, but their load rating is the highest I have seen available for the D3 at 120 and a speed of S which translates to 1400kg and 180km/hr, well worth considering if and when QLD changes to the national code allowing 50mm increase in tyre diameter not the measily 15mm at present.
Ryall
Hi chuck, has anyone had any problems with rubbing ? given the extra width. They only just fit fully inflated how are they with reduced pressuresQuote:
Originally Posted by chuck
I believe there is rubbing on certain models, (08 onwards I seem to remember) and beware the rear air conditioning pipes. However, I think the slight rubbing is more cosmetic then mechanically damaging.
I was looking at the Mickey Thompson ATZ as replacements for the well worn after 25,000k's goodyears - yes they saved us once this year so they remained good until now... reading through this thread has provided as much help as confusion, but no-one has mentioned using ***/65R18 as yet - forgive me if i'm wrong but this is an extra 25mm of clearance. I thought i'd ask the Q to get smarter peoples opinions in this area.
18" LT275/65R18
LOAD & SPEED 123R
OVERALL DIAMETER (MM) 815
BTW, if you are in need of 18" rubber while you are near the Flinders Ranges, be careful of who you deal with, $490 for a single tyre (Continental ContiCrossContact UHP - apparently not a bad tyre but not what I was looking to pay) seems on the obscene side of unreasonable but was all he stocked in that size... It might pay to phone around prior to departing to see where you can get rubber from before you go. I'm still smarting from the transaction...
2nd question that has popped up after reading this thread... will the tread pattern play havoc with the TC or any other system if i needed to run on it with the remaining 3 Goodyears?
jas g