My Chiffon Ivory JB74 SZ5 - blog/mods/build thread

195 80 15---27.3in
215 75 15---27.7in
.4in /10.16mm over all
just over 5mm lift.
Put the weight of the car on the tyre then its not a perfect circle where the tyre sits on the road. The only over sized tyres are usually MT / remoulds not AT or road tyres.

You are correct I used photoshop to make the tyre look bigger... :whistle:

When I rolled a BFG K02 tyre up against the 195 tyre. I went WOW there huge but when fitted don't look so big. Enjoy your Jimny & thanks for blog.

When I swapped the factory Bridgestone for my BF Goodrich both in 205.70 the BFG were significantly taller so I put the tape measure over them and they were 7 mm bigger compared with the then as new spare Bridgestone. They brought the speedometer to within 2 mph from being near 4.5 slow..

Grima wrote: When I rolled a BFG K02 tyre up against the 195 tyre. I went WOW there huge but when fitted don't look so big. Enjoy your Jimny & thanks for blog.

I agree, they should fit fine. Plenty of people running 235/75R15's on stock suspension, which to the maths are another 30mm taller than the 215.

But not all tyres are equal. And while it is true many remoulds come up big or even small. New tyres also have variance from tread to tread and different brands. We have a shed full of tyres on the farm and you wouldn't believe the variance.

Also used to bigger tyres, used to run some 34" tall Simex's on my Discovery.

Nothing too much new to add at the moment. The lockdown and uncertainty has put hold to a lot of things.

I have added the rear rubber load liner. The backs of the seats are fine, but being hard plastic, stuff slipped and slid about quite a bit on them. Hoping the liner will prevent this.

Turned up in just a few days of ordering and fits straight in.



You do need to have the belts clipped to the seat backs however.




Had a bit of a play off road, but still having issue with it jumping out of low range. Fairly sure it is just the linkage, but the dealer has been shut for a couple of weeks now. So unable to get it looked at.