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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? :P

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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

Snigger.. :pimp .I came back from S/P at 2 bar all round and enjoyed the challenge of keeping her on course with the wind etc!

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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.
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carsnscoots wrote:Cheers Kingprawn, that's a nice looking van you have, did you have to do any mods to the trailing arms? :P
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!
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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 :ok

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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
Sounds good to me, Thanks

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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 :shock: :shock:

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 :shock: :shock:

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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