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Choices of a 205/75/15

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Choices of a 205/75/15

Post by Santos »

About 2 hours ago i had craving for ice cream so i seached for like 15mins for my keys, got in the car and set off reverse down the slope of my battle-axe driveway. The car was all over the place and i tried driving up the driveway to straighten the wheels. when i finally got out after the second attempt i found my front driver side wheel very very flat.

So i went to change my tire for the spare. Discovered interesting things like the security bolt adaptar was not the same size as the other oem ones so if it had of hapened anywhere other than at home where i got other cars and tools i would of being stuck. Seriously go check your bolts if you have a set too.

Anyway so now the spare is on i got to look into replacing the flat and would like some help with my options.

The front tyre is a Bridgestone dueler (same on passage side) and the spare is a brand new hanbrook (only traveled 8km's :D ) The rears are Sumotos, only 3000kms on them as they where new when i bought them (given receipt, previous owner needed to pass pinkslip, that's all i've clocked in a year :shock: )

So do i :
a)Swap the passanger one for another Hanbrook and keep the ol Dueler as the spare. (cheapest option)

b) Swap the flat and front passanger one for two more sumotos and keep the hambrook as a spare, that way i can rotate all 4 tyres every couple of months


These are quick fix options but any advice on a different tyre types best suited for use on street, snow and sand dunes would be appreciated (not doing heavy rocky off roading)
If there isn't a tyre suited for all 3 conditions then i'd prefer snow and street type as on the sand i'll just lower the PSI (not to mention beef out my arms or invest in power steering)

I am honestly quite happy with stock tyre size as i don't need the bigger tyres for the type of off road driving.

The ice cream was really good too.
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Post by alien »

better to change 2 tyres at a time...

i got newish 215/75's for my rears and theyre actually about 15-20mm taller than me 215/75s on the front... this means 4wd is a bit funny now as the fronts spin faster than the rears - so no more 4wd in wet roads cos it binds up.

but - if it was only on one tyre then that one tyre would spin different to the rest, prolly not good for the diff.
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