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New tyres need to go on the rear?

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Saffy:

--- Quote from: carbore on July 06, 2010, 22:29:10 ---Interestingly, you can still buy them http://www.longstonetires.com/Crossply.php

Isnt the internet wonderful. (PS Im staying in a hotel and im so bored)

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No certain movies appearing on your bill then :lipsrsealed:

carbore:
I think I have a

dxmedia:
I'd guess that the VCU on a landrover is of execptionally bad design, probably to the degree that if it was the states a class action would have been put in for a full recall and replacement.

Tyre wear makes no difference be it on the front or back of a permi 4x4.

Different tyre sizes will.


I know that the above is a floored statement, but...

If you drive down a straight road and have no centre diff and have different tyres on both the front and back, then there will be mechanical damage. For those 4x4's which have no centre diff (always locked - mosts Isuzu's, hiluxes, terranos...) if they are left in 4wd on tarmac and driven around it's not the centre diff which gives way, it's either the front diff or the hubs. The centre diff is not the weak point.

All a VCU is, is a viscous coupling. Hardly rocket science. They've been fitted in a number of applications for a long time, one very small step up from a 'normal' mechanical diff. When talking about the difference in tyre size due to wear compaired to the work which the centre diff does driving around town, tight turns, round abouts, parellel parking... it's insignificant.

The problem isn't putting tyres on a specific axle, it's the crap prone to failure unit which landrover fitted.

Chastiser:
for me, new tyres would go on the front. not only is vehicle either rear wheel drive or 4 wheel drive. in addition, if you have mud tyres fitted that most likely have a soft compound, cornering on the road will show more wear to the side of the tread at the front, certainly does with mine. this would mean buying two tyres, fitting those to the front and rotating the fronts to the rear.

Mike

V8MoneyPit:
My colleague at work had a garage refuse to fit tyres to the front of their Ka. They were going to charge him extra to swap the rears to the front and then fit the new ones on the rear, so he took the wheels there off the car and had them fit them.

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