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Offline DarrenR1100

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Freelander tires
« on: February 20, 2008, 21:21:04 »
can any one recommend the best value tires for 90% road use and will last better than the Wranglers on the front of my 1999 Xi  5 door. We very rarely venture off road so a good road tire is what we would like
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Re: Freelander tires
« Reply #1 on: February 20, 2008, 23:24:16 »
Hi Darren
I had Wranglers on my Freeby when I bought it, terrible. Fitted General Grabber ATs 195/80/15's lasted about 10K and were terrible too. Did a bit of research on tinter web and this forum and came up with an increase in width with a reduction in aspect ratio to keep the same circumferance ish giving me 215/75/15's.  I've had the BFG AT's on virtually a year, done 21500 miles on them and they are about 1/3rd worn so for a 94 quid tyre that should see 60k miles pretty good value for money, and the ride and drive is better by far. 

By the way I do virtually no off road in the Freeby, thats what my 110 is for.

follow this link to view original thread http://www.mud-club.com/forum/index.php/topic,34127.msg369312.html#msg369312 

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Tony
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Re: Freelander tires
« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2008, 17:14:14 »
By the way I have 16" tires on my Freebie not 15", does that matter
Darren
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Re: Freelander tires
« Reply #3 on: February 22, 2008, 18:10:32 »
There's a bit on tyres here, in the tech section:
http://www.mad-freelanders.org.uk/
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Re: Freelander tires
« Reply #4 on: March 21, 2008, 20:32:23 »
we have pirrelli scorpio's and there ok, atm we have 1 general grabber on the car and it seems ok aswell ! 
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