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Tyre Pressures
Hi all, fairly new to the forum and was wondering what you that have 215 75 15 BFG all terrains on Mefro rims advise as a good pressure for road use. Many thanks Andy
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I have 215/16's on merc ml's .. 35 front 38 rear on a westy pop top with light load of general crap and it seems pretty good ..
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Cheers Kingprawn, that's a nice looking van you have, did you have to do any mods to the trailing arms? 

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I run my 215/75/15 BFG KM2 at 2.5bar front 3bar rear same as the 205R14C works fine for me, have gone slightly higher when very loaded
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Aidan wrote:I run my 215/75/15 BFG KM2 at 2.5bar front 3bar rear same as the 205R14C works fine for me, have gone slightly higher when very loaded
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I run my 215/75x15 BFG ATs at 38 and 46psi which is much the same as Aidan's metricated 2.5 & 3 bar.
Works well both as a light bus and also when loaded heavily.
Works well both as a light bus and also when loaded heavily.
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Nothing done but have 25mm spacers and on the front had to file away some of the syncro rubber arch protector to stop the brrraaappp on full lock!carsnscoots wrote:Cheers Kingprawn, that's a nice looking van you have, did you have to do any mods to the trailing arms?
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Well maybe I should go up a bit higher??... I was just guessing and using the sticker in the door pillar !
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Hey everyone, thanks a lot for the feedback its been really helpful. Cheers 

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Sounds good to me, ThanksAidan wrote:I run my 215/75/15 BFG KM2 at 2.5bar front 3bar rear same as the 205R14C works fine for me, have gone slightly higher when very loaded
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garyd wrote:I run my 215/75x15 BFG ATs at 38 and 46psi which is much the same as Aidan's metricated 2.5 & 3 bar.
Works well both as a light bus and also when loaded heavily.
Thanks for the conversion to psi haha! if its good enough for you an Aidan then its definitely good for me Cheers
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I know I'm gonna get 'told off' again but I run my empty panel on km2's at 36psi all round
My 'theory' being that it's nigh on 50/50 balance and as long as the rear rolling radius doesn't reduce to 2mm less than the front the vc should be fine.
If I use it for 'holiday mode' - loads of 'baggage' and towing the 'shed' I'll increase the rears to 40psi- works for me !!


My 'theory' being that it's nigh on 50/50 balance and as long as the rear rolling radius doesn't reduce to 2mm less than the front the vc should be fine.
If I use it for 'holiday mode' - loads of 'baggage' and towing the 'shed' I'll increase the rears to 40psi- works for me !!
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Syncrobaz wrote:I know I'm gonna get 'told off' again but I run my empty panel on km2's at 36psi all round![]()
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My 'theory' being that it's nigh on 50/50 balance and as long as the rear rolling radius doesn't reduce to 2mm less than the front the vc should be fine.
If I use it for 'holiday mode' - loads of 'baggage' and towing the 'shed' I'll increase the rears to 40psi- works for me !!
Cheers!