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Re:Mud tires

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30 Dec 2019 10:40 #216842 by jackonlyjack

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Have you considered going to 16" wheels
My BFG's are 225 75 16 with a 3" lift
I found a little more tyre choice for 16's

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30 Dec 2019 10:59 #216843 by Mole

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I hadn't thought of that in all honesty I'll have a little look at that.
I guess my quandary is I want a fairly aggressive tire but dont want to be branded as someone who has no regard for the lanes and there up keep as I'm not

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31 Dec 2019 14:31 #216864 by yakuza

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I'll just throw my usual pint of gasoline on the fire by saying that here in Norway we tend to like to go wide, especially on the light weight cars.
On my SJ I had 325/60-15 tires. Worked brilliantly for me as the /60 profile made it better handling on-road as well.
It is the tires in my avatar picture.
No way they would fit my jimny unless I cut massively.

I would like better to have wide tires than to mess up the crawl ratio too much with too tall tires.. I would stay with the smaller diameter with 1.3 engine and original gearing. 235's is just for show unless you gear down and/or go 1.6.

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01 Jan 2020 00:42 #216871 by Daniel30

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I have general grabber x3, good road manners, great off road too.

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17 Jan 2020 16:51 #217346 by 300bhpton

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Mole wrote: Completely get that and think your right I'd be happy to go for a less aggressive tire but do want a decent side lug do you have a tire you could recommend that would be a half way house

Did you get anything sorted in the end?

Lots of good tyres out there these days.

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17 Jan 2020 17:57 #217358 by Mole

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Not as yet but think I will probably got for the insa turbo sahara the reviews seem pretty good plenty of grip without tearing up lanes but it's on the back burner atm as had to fork out some bits on my other car. But am still open to others

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17 Jan 2020 18:34 #217362 by Riccy

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Toyo opencountry MT are great, actually measure the size ordered and run nice and quiet on road/awesome off it. Demon tweeks do a good price on them as well ;-)

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17 Jan 2020 18:49 #217367 by Soeley

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Toyo have just brought out a RT, to sit between AT and MT.

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17 Jan 2020 20:15 #217375 by crash486

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Soeley wrote: Toyo have just brought out a RT, to sit between AT and MT.

Do they make a 15"? Can only see 16" and above on Australian site.

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17 Jan 2020 21:29 #217376 by Soeley

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Don't know, it was just something I saw on Twitter/Instagram/Facebook. Didn't look into the sizes as I'm happy with the standard Duelers up to now.

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17 Jan 2020 23:33 #217378 by jackonlyjack

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No eBay APP ID and/or Cert ID defined in Kunena configurationWhat about these

Jack

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18 Jan 2020 08:33 #217380 by kirkynut

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I get the thinking behind the side lugs getting you out of the ruts but you had a great deal less weight on a quad.

If a Jimny gets stuck in ruts it is likely grounded on one diff at least, possibly both and or a radius arm mount.

In which case there's far too much resistance for a side lug to overcome.

To get out of the rut you'll need to turn the main tread to grip on the rut.

So whilst I see your theory, I don't think it will work well enough to warrant the expenditure when really what you need is more ground clearance. That means bigger tyres and lower gearing and even more expense. Like I've been through!

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