Thread: Mixing tyre sizes 265/60/18 & 255/55/19

Originally Posted by Garfield

and without going off the subject of the thread, by Land Rover not providing a 17 or 18 inch OEM option for newer/future Discoverys and RR, does this mean they are going away from producing seriously cable 4WD's and just concentrating on the black tarmac brigade vehicles sitting on thin rubber ?

31" tyres on 19" rims have the same sidewall height as 30" on 18" rims.

I have a similar problem to others with 18" Compomotive rims it seems, in cheaply setting up a second spare. I went for the 285/60R18s and really like their purposeful look. But these of course are a larger rolling diameter than the 265s that most went for, and 5% larger than the stock 255/55R19. So I'm ruling out keeping an old 19" rim, unless perhaps I shod it with a funky tyre like a 235/65R19 which gets me back to 1.6% difference, similar to the difference LRD414 tested as ok.

I think I best get a cheap 18" LR rim (I see one for ~$240 on ebay ATM) which will be ok for the rears, and a two-step for the front I understand. Then I can match the diameter exactly.

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