Any Suggestion on Off Road Modification for Disco 4

[DIS4]

Hi, I had my disco 4 few months. It has AT Tyre, but a friend of mine thought it more road use. We went to little road trip, it complete useless on mud. Any suggestion how should change it to mud Tyre since I had 20" rim? I don't do it off road very often, what is good balance to use it? Should I just switch between AT or Mud when need it? Any brand or size recommend?

I also like to know the suggestion to have Disco 4 travel to Simpson dessert, I had been told that air suspension can be easily damaged by sand. Any experience? Spare part become a problem since my replaced bumper bar need to shipped from UK, it took 3-4 working days.

Then, I wonder whether is worthwell to modify Disco 4 or just get Landcruiser 80 for 10k plus (with mud tyre, bull bar and long range tank) to do hard work. In my research, Disco is equal to LC200 off road capacity, but it might not practical as the parts become an issue if things happen.

Thanks for your opinions!

[Drizzle]

Best bet is to change to 18" compomotive wheels where you'll have many more options for tyres. Tyre choice itself is subjective, but Bridgestone D697 and BF Goodrich KO2 are currently the only LT rated tyres in the preferred 265/60R18. (The KO2 will be available in a few weeks). The only mud tyre is the Achilles XMT, unless you want to go oversize which generates its own issues of rubbing and tyres not fitting in the spare wheel compartment.

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/d3-d4-rrs/...pomotives.html

http://www.greenovalexperience.com/#!18-inch-rims/cglk

[Tombie]

As for comments on Airbags and Sand.
Obviously from some Toyota/Nissan owner who has no idea....

Spare parts are only days away for common items - and this is shared between ALL brands. So not exclusive to LR.

I've had to wait 6-8 weeks for a diff for a work Prado to come from Japan!!!

[digger]

Tombie will pop in soon im sure, he has made some additions and changes to
His D4..

[Graeme]

Tombie will pop in soon im sure,

Sooner than you thought!

[jonesy63]

In addition to AT or MT tyres, the best bang-for-buck addition is driver training.

[guthrie]

We went to little road trip, it complete useless on mud. Any suggestion how should change it to mud Tyre since I had 20" rim?

It's worth doing a 4WD course if you can. I just did Gordon's (GOE) course and was amazed at the ability of my D4 wearing Highway tyres in muddy conditions. MT tyres will obviously go even better offroad, but they will be noisy on road.

[Tombie]

It's worth doing a 4WD course if you can. I just did Gordon's (GOE) course and was amazed at the ability of my D4 wearing Highway tyres in muddy conditions. MT tyres will obviously go even better offroad, but they will be noisy on road.

And not a necessity for such trips as Deserts etc

[BobD]

The D4 is definitely not useless in mud or sand. Might I suggest that you get hold of Gordon's book from the GOE web site and read it carefully.


My D4 has done thousands of km of sand driving. It is what we have most of in WA! The sand has had no effect on the suspension and I have no idea who would have propagated such a ridiculous statement. It is amazing what "experts" that have never seen a D4 can say!

[~Rich~]

LLAMS or Rods!!!! A must have.