235/85x16 on a std 90

Getting a tyre dealer to believe that "yes" you really do mean 85 !!

John H

Regards. Mark.(AKA, Mr.Nice.)

On or around Wed, 9 Mar 2005 18:31:32 -0000, "George Spigot" enlightened us thusly:

put 'em on suitable wheels, apart from that no. We've a thread about this at the moment, the jury's out on whether LWB rims are suitable (though I've seen plenty on such rims with no apparent problems)

standard SWB rims are too narrow.

cool, ta :O)

-- Jon

Cheers Austin I've been looking at that thread got some tyres on rims ( 4x fedima remoulds with chunky tread) and I've got some bf goodrich mud tyres x5(forgot their proper name) not on rims one set I keep one set I may get rid of.

-- Jon

Why? I've had 7.50s on SWB rims for the last 20 odd years. Won the SROC RTV league twice with them, so they can't be that wrong.

Gordon

On or around 10 Mar 2005 01:12:24 -0800, snipped-for-privacy@drytecltd.com (Gordon) enlightened us thusly:

Am I right in thinking that the two systems measure tyre width at different points? So that a 235/85 would have a different aspect ratio if you measured width under the old system.

Austin Hi,

Land Rover themselves offer the Defender TD5 D90 with 235/85 X 16 tyres mounted on 7.5 X 16 alloy rims.

Take care Pantelis

On or around Thu, 10 Mar 2005 14:00:24 +0200, "Pantelis Giamarellos" enlightened us thusly:

the disco alloys are 7J. naturally, no bugger was in evidence *anywhere* today in town in a steel-shod defender.

I can confirm that standard 90 wheels are 5.5J.

Austin Hi,

you are absolutely right about the standard steel Defender 90 wheel rims. Those are 5.5 inches wide.

Take care Pantelis

On or around Fri, 11 Mar 2005 00:39:14 +0200, "Pantelis Giamarellos" enlightened us thusly:

Hopefully I'll track down some more examples to look at in the next few days. Normally, this area is wall-to-wall defenders, naturally, the only ones I saw yesterday were on alloys or non-standard steels.