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Provided that you tell the insuarce company that you have changed the tyres for non standard ones and they agree as with any other mod, you should be fine.

If it weren't there wouldn't be a market for big knobbly tyres as almost all are a lower speed rating than the original fit.

Range Rover Blues:
I'm not sure it's simply a matter of tellilng your insurance company, the reason fitting too low a rated tyre invalidates you insurance is that it's illegal.

Highridge:
In reply to DrMike.

Not sure what you mean about rated for my vehicle, the tyres are rated at 64mph, my Bobtail will only do 55mph so thats the maximum speed I can drive at.

That is only on motorways on level ground after a good run up, I suspect that is the diffs, the previous owner was unwilling to explain the mods he made, (it was an eBay deal) I was told that maybe the diffs had been swapped for LR ones with more favourable off road gearing.

As I said I am new to all this, however, I still stand by my comments on these tyres, I have yet to get stuck.

I had 6 hours at Frickley on Sunday, which was very muddy and had plenty of deep water.

Regards, Karl.

anaxemurderer:
Not wanting to be insulting but never getting stuck is not a good way to prove how good tyres are. Surely you can only find the very limit by going past the limit.

It has long been my moto that if you don't get stuck your not trying hard enough!

When i'm not driving in the deepest mud i can find i'm intentionally taking the most difficult line in order to test the vehicles limits. (which i might add far out go mine!)

I wasn't aware that using tyres rated less than original spec was actually illegal!

Nick

clbarclay:
I currently have SATs which are L rated and super swampers that are only DOT marked so whating to see what the letter of the law actually says. I expect VOSA is the best bet for an answer?


Karl
Regards your diffs, chances are they might be from a series land rover which had a higher ratio of 4.7:1 compared to coil sprung live axle landrovers (disco/range rover/defender) which have a ratio of 3.54:1 as standard. You might also have a different transphere box, defenders, inparticulare early 110 had higher ratio transphere boxs compared to range rovers.

It seems a bit odd that previous owner wasn't prepared to explain the modifications, must be a bit awkward when declaring modifications for insurance if you don't know what and how its been changed.

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