Hey Guys,
I was thinking about putting all terrain tyres on my camper. I have a 1.9 high top leisure drive at the standard height with the standard 14 steels, would a swap over work or would I have to upgrade the suspension and get bigger wheels?
any advice or pics would be great.
cheers
Ollie
All terrain tyres?
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Re: All terrain tyres?
You need to take into account the gearing , I have 16" wheels with commercial tyres on my 2.1 leisure drive and whilst it stops the a*** dragging in the mud when camping , it does make it high geared and you have to work it harder on the hills .....
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Re: All terrain tyres?
Fit 15" MEFRO steels from Brickwerks. Put on General Grabber AT 215/75R15 all terrain tyres and bobs yer uncle. No other mods needed. That's exactly what we have on our Syncro and it's brilliant on and off road. 
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Re: All terrain tyres?
On a 1.9 it will knock the stuffing out of any performance it has left. Been there on the same ^^^ tyres. The extra drag of the tread pattern will knock your mileage too.
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I have vredstien mud n snow on a spare set of standard 14" rims,got me out of muddy fields last spring, they lighten your steering and look ard but they do.n't half drone,
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Re: All terrain tyres?
Winchweight wrote:Fit 15" MEFRO steels from Brickwerks. Put on General Grabber AT 215/75R15 all terrain tyres and bobs yer uncle. No other mods needed. That's exactly what we have on our Syncro and it's brilliant on and off road.
Hi Winchweight
hw do you find the road noice with the grabbers
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Re: All terrain tyres?
irishkeet wrote:Winchweight wrote:Fit 15" MEFRO steels from Brickwerks. Put on General Grabber AT 215/75R15 all terrain tyres and bobs yer uncle. No other mods needed. That's exactly what we have on our Syncro and it's brilliant on and off road.
Hi Winchweight
hw do you find the road noice with the grabbers
Can't say I notice it at all. They have great manners on and off road. Even on the long haul to Budapest, road noise wasn't an issue: the whistle from the quarter light window was though....
Before we had the Tdi conversion we had a 1.6TD JX and didn't really notice much loss of performance there either.
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Re: All terrain tyres?
Winchweight wrote:irishkeet wrote:Winchweight wrote:Fit 15" MEFRO steels from Brickwerks. Put on General Grabber AT 215/75R15 all terrain tyres and bobs yer uncle. No other mods needed. That's exactly what we have on our Syncro and it's brilliant on and off road.
Hi Winchweight
hw do you find the road noice with the grabbers
Can't say I notice it at all. They have great manners on and off road. Even on the long haul to Budapest, road noise wasn't an issue: the whistle from the quarter light window was though....
Before we had the Tdi conversion we had a 1.6TD JX and didn't really notice much loss of performance there either.
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Re: All terrain tyres?
Pro's: more grip on the slippy stuff.
Con's: Noisier/less MPG/slower acceleration/working harder on hills/less grip on normal road surfaces/general handling poorer/increased tyre wear.
Martin
Con's: Noisier/less MPG/slower acceleration/working harder on hills/less grip on normal road surfaces/general handling poorer/increased tyre wear.
Martin
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