Funny how costs spiral.. Tyres...

Post by **lewd lude lover** » Sat Mar 07, 2015 6:46 am

yeah, all in the pipeline.

Fletch and I have a lot of hours to spend together. Put it that way

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Sat Mar 07, 2015 9:10 am

Post by **lewd lude lover** » Sat Mar 07, 2015 5:15 pm

You'll be laughing tother side when I'm on the roof holding a protest at conditions

Riot in my own livingroom.

'92 Si VTEC · Post by **jjmartin349571** » Sat Mar 07, 2015 5:17 pm

Just read through this, you're quite right SUV tyre prices make me want to cry

I need 3 between my 2 trucks currently

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I wonder what HGV tyre prices are like

Post by **lewd lude lover** » Sat Mar 07, 2015 5:53 pm

shush you I dont want to know! I do know all the ones I have are able to be recut though

To be honest I Wasn't so shocked at the single tyre price. £125 a corner fitted seems about what I would normally pay on a car for premium ut its all at once

Tinking now powdercoat and buy 4 tyres. Keep the best of whats there for the spare.

What kind of tyres will you be looking at? what ratio road/offroad? I though it got busy choosing car tyres but you add in off road ability and your head wants to pop

'92 Si VTEC · Post by **jjmartin349571** » Sat Mar 07, 2015 7:04 pm

lewd lude lover wrote:I do know all the ones I have are able to be recut though

Result

I haven't bought tyres for large sized wheels for a while now, so I'm fairly used to a set of good tyres not setting me back more than about £50 a corner. My Bighorn takes a 245/65R17 from memory, and ditch finders start at about £70 in that size

Yeah the choice of tyres when it comes to application is mind boggling. My dad runs General Grabber AT's on his Trooper, and he didn't have any trouble when he was using his truck to pull post and rail fence out the ground in a soggy field. They're not amazing on the road though, and he said he noticed the drop in fuel economy compared to the road tyres he ran previously.

I'm planning to be boring and run 100% road tyres on my Bighorn, it currently has Hankooks and it handles well (for what it is) on them. The reason I'm planning on sticking to road tyres is that I want to tow with it, and I'm unlikely to find myself hauling trailers off road now that my mum has bought the L200 for horse based malarkey. Driveability whilst logging motorway miles is what I'm after, at the expense of not being able to play in the mud

On the Horizon I'd love to get a set of these; tyre porn - although it'd basically render the truck useless for road use. Realistically I'll probably go for a mixed use tyre, as the other 3 good tyres fall under this genre and I hate spending money

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Sat Mar 07, 2015 9:33 pm

Plus you have a second Honda badged trooper for all the off road shenanigans anyway?

Post by **lewd lude lover** » Sat Mar 07, 2015 10:17 pm

From the reviews the michelin seem a pretty good compromise. You get a C rated fuel efficiency tyre that 'apparently' can handle some stricky stuff. Most people saying they are 99% road when on the road and 50/50 when off road. I'm gonna give it a try. Fingers crossed

Nice to have a spare for the horse work

If I knew it was not going to be working off road ever I would join you in road tyres but I do want to try and get stuck and I have seen the fields she needs to get out of sometimes.

'92 Si VTEC · Post by **jjmartin349571** » Sat Mar 07, 2015 11:06 pm

wurlycorner wrote:Plus you have a second Honda badged trooper for all the off road shenanigans anyway?

Yuss, provided I fix it

I had a bit of a result today, will hopefully do some more on it tomorrow. Then provided what I'm doing works the off road abuse can begin

lewd lude lover wrote:From the reviews the michelin seem a pretty good compromise. You get a C rated fuel efficiency tyre that 'apparently' can handle some stricky stuff. Most people saying they are 99% road when on the road and 50/50 when off road. I'm gonna give it a try. Fingers crossed

Nice to have a spare for the horse work If I knew it was not going to be working off road ever I would join you in road tyres but I do want to try and get stuck and I have seen the fields she needs to get out of sometimes.

Sounds like those Michelins are a good compromise

Horse stuff is a bugger so I'm glad there's a pickup truck in the family now, moving hay was the worst it never comes out of interiors

along with the dog hair I don't think my truck will ever be clean inside again

I've seen a fair few Freelanders etc. stuck in fields at horse shows, their owners making it worse by trying to power out

Your mrs will be showing them up by the sounds of it

Post by **lewd lude lover** » Sat Mar 07, 2015 11:34 pm

we can but hope. I think some lessons in offroad driving will help us both. first time she needs the center diff lock to get out will be a bottle of wine if she does. I am considering an LSD on the back if I can find one. I think its open at the moment.

I really did struggle over getting a pick up.....because of hay

I just want an import though so..... hoover time!

it is the worst though. You never get it all out.