Wheel and Tyre package

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I have found a few good sites for jimny bits but I'm finding it hard to find a good place to buy a wheel and tyre package for my jimny. Can anyone help me or tell me where they bought their wheels/tyres from?

I'm after special tracks or similar but I will consider different tread patterns if anyone can tell me what is best on a jimny. A few people have told me that special tracks will be rubbish on a jimny as there is no weight and they wont dig in when off road. Is this right? A couple of my mates have them but their on landys so they weigh a tonne anyway!:laugh:

try www.4x4at.com . it is a very smart place and i have just bought a set of brand new 15 x 7 offset modular wheels in black from there for £28 each which i dont think is too bad. i also managed to pick up my very nobbly off road tyres from ebay at not too bad a price with 15mm of tread on each.

Adamski wrote: try www.4x4at.com . it is a very smart place and i have just bought a set of brand new 15 x 7 offset modular wheels in black from there for £28 each which i dont think is too bad. i also managed to pick up my very nobbly off road tyres from ebay at not too bad a price with 15mm of tread on each.

Cheers buddy I'll check them out. What size tyres have you got fitted? I think I'm going for a 3" lift so I want some reasonably big tyres!

Bigchridy wrote:

Adamski wrote: try www.4x4at.com . it is a very smart place and i have just bought a set of brand new 15 x 7 offset modular wheels in black from there for £28 each which i dont think is too bad. i also managed to pick up my very nobbly off road tyres from ebay at not too bad a price with 15mm of tread on each.

Cheers buddy I'll check them out. What size tyres have you got fitted? I think I'm going for a 3" lift so I want some reasonably big tyres!

my tyres are 205 75 15. i have a 3" lift and i can honestly say thoes size tyres on the offset modulars are absolutley perfect. the tyres are nice and chunky and the offset wheels give it a nice wider track however they dont rub and there is no arch cutting required. i had thoes tyres on the standard 15 x 6 non offset Jimny steel wheels and the car looked rubbish, the track was far too skinny. when im on my pc tomorrow i'll upload some photos.

Cheers for the information and I'll look forward to seeing the pics!

I have special tracks on my jimny and they are very good. I have gotten up hills that some land rovers have failed (as long as I don't ground the bottom of the diff or the radius arms)
you can also get them from silverline as a package with wheels
be careful what size you get because when new they measure slightly larger than the quoted size
I have 31" on mine but I have a three inch lift + 2" coil spacers and the inner arches have been trimmed

Bigchridy wrote: Cheers for the information and I'll look forward to seeing the pics!

Here are my tyres on the standard 6" wide Jimny wheels:



Notice how far in the arches they sit:


and here are my tyres on the 7" wide offset modulars:

Those black modulars are looking pretty good there Adamski! I've always had a thing for black wheels - I will have to indulge sometime!

I've used www.4x4at.com for tyres many times over the years and would also recommend them. I've always taken a drive over to get them fitted so don't know what they're like on delivery.

Mark Sowden / Sowden Tyres is good on price for remoulds, I think he offers wheels as well - you have to ring him for a price though - his website technology isn't that advanced yet.

I'm not sure where the person who made the comment about special tracks not being very good on a light car was coming from.

The lighter the car the more aggressive the tyres will need to be if you work on their theory of not having the weight to push the tyre into the ground enough to get traction.

This is exactly where I am at now I am geting more extreme with my offroading. I run Kumho KL71's which I think are a great all round MT tyre - except I now need more - so I'm looking at getting Special Tracks or another brand other than Insa Turbo but with the same tread pattern.

Kirkynut

kirkynut wrote: I'm not sure where the person who made the comment about special tracks not being very good on a light car was coming from.

The lighter the car the more aggressive the tyres will need to be if you work on their theory of not having the weight to push the tyre into the ground enough to get traction.

This is exactly where I am at now I am geting more extreme with my offroading. I run Kumho KL71's which I think are a great all round MT tyre - except I now need more - so I'm looking at getting Special Tracks or another brand other than Insa Turbo but with the same tread pattern.

Kirkynut

Yeah I didnt really understand what they were on about. I'm currently running cooper discoverer stt's on the disco and their very good in the mud but if I'm buying another wheel and tyre package I was thinking of going down the special track route as their pretty much as aggressive as you can get! And with them being retreads they may be cheaper!

Yes they are the most aggressive about really and they are reasonably priced and about the cheapest of that tread pattern. Maletesta are priced similarly and do the same tread pattern and more size options than Insa Turbo. I've not heard anything much about them though.

Kirkynut

kirkynut wrote: Yes they are the most aggressive about really and they are reasonably priced and about the cheapest of that tread pattern. Maletesta are priced similarly and do the same tread pattern and more size options than Insa Turbo. I've not heard anything much about them though.

Kirkynut

What size are you going to go for? And what lift do you have? I havent lifted mine yet so I'm just seeing what lifts and tyre sizes other people have to get some inspiration!!