Tyres on a disco...

Well I can give you an opinion, for what it's worth.

My (1997) Disco came with Goodyear Eagle GT +4 tyres when I bought it in 2002. I reckon that one or two tyres had been replaced because I had a mix of Outline White Lettering and plain black. (Nowadays, these tyres have one side OWL and one side black).

I did around 35-40,000 on these tyres going up and down the motorways, often in horrible rain, and I thought they were brill. So much so that I have just replaced all four with a new set of the same tyres at Billing. The Goodyear staff told me that the GT +4 was the original factory-fitted tyre for the Disco at the time mine was built.

As I have said, I think the Eagle GT +4 tyres are excellent BUT ..... I have nothing to compare them with. My last Land Rover was a Series III with (road-biased) all terrain tyres and driving on the motorway was a completely different experience!

I paid £300 for tyres, fitting, balancing at Billing. If you decide to go for the GT +4, perhaps you could find out if Goodyear are going to have a stand at a show soon, although we're probably getting towards the end of the season.

Judith

I ran on Cooper ATs for a while and was quite impressed with them - better grip than the stock Goodyears, better wear as well - I got 65k out of them vs 35 for the original set.

After that I went onto Mastercraft Avengers which were actually better tyres

- grippier in the wet, mud and snow.

The Coopers were around £70 per corner and the Mastercraft around £55 per corner when I bought them.

P.

Just for reference: Good tyres, less good for wear - they get half of what some cheaper tyres get.

P.

On or around Tue, 17 Aug 2004 10:18:17 GMT, "Paul S. Brown" enlightened us thusly:

never heard of 'em. are they remoulds?

They're actually both Avon brands.

Avon is actually Cooper-Avon and Mastercraft is their budget brand. Both real tyres, not remoulds.

P.

On or around Tue, 17 Aug 2004 14:38:54 GMT, "Paul S. Brown" enlightened us thusly:

ooer. still never heard of 'em. however, the local bod will do either pirelli or Goodyear for 64 plus vat each, fitted. works out about 75 apiece, so I've gone with the Pirellis this time, based on opinions from sister's BF on his Rangie (he drives like a nutter too) and on past experience of Pirelli ATs on the 110, which stuck like toffee on a blanket, albeit rather faster wearing than some. Will see what the STs wear like in due course.

Or you could move to over here in Africa where it is much dryer;-)

On or around Thu, 19 Aug 2004 13:51:27 +0200, "Aubrey" enlightened us thusly:

I had thought about it. Mother (not Martyn) is, after all, already breeding Boer goats.

what's the supply of LPG like out there?

and, more to the point I suppose, is it actually possible to emigrate to ZA these days, without being either rich or having a recognised trade "they" want?

I can wrangle Land rovers and engines and vehicles in general, I can weld, fabricate, carpent, build and so on, but I've no bits of paper that attest to these abilities.

NZ is screaming for builders, has lots of Landrovers, speaks English and covers a climatic range from better than any of the UK to as bad a the Shetlands. Maybe you should emigrate here.

On or around Sat, 21 Aug 2004 09:09:55 +1200, EMB enlightened us thusly:

It's my understanding that it's boodly difficult to emigrate to Aus. or NZ these days, unless you have lots of money.

Ages ago (well, about 40 years) a cousin of me dad's emigrated there, but he was a qualified 'phone engineer of the serious kind, and such were in demand then.

My biggest problem is that while I can do all these various things and in smoe cases better than the "professionals" (FSVO professional), I lack paper qualifications for any of 'em.

Most of the (western) world doesn't seem to want an experienced generalist any more, everything has to be done by suitable specialists, who've got bits of paper to prove how special they are...

Only if you are British (or European). Asians can get in easily.

Ron

And then the politicians complain because the schools have learnt how to teach the kids to get the bits of paper...

And the people with the practical knowledge look at what the pieces of paper are based on, and just sigh.