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Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2004 12:02 am
by Rainbow Warrior
Samuel wrote:Crossply tyres are perfectly legal, provided you have them on all 4 corners of a 4x4, ie. dont mix and match, and besides that swampers would be illegal on most cars anyway because of their size!
An insurance company has to pay you unless its proven that you had exeeded the tires speed rating, and in most cases means that you were doing over the state limit anyway, so you have little chance of getting paid in the end.
At one stage I had 4 SAT 12 ply bar treads and 4 Roadgripper radials and had to use one of the other set as a spare, the old rock suspension Landy handled different but ok with 4 of either and 3 of either, but 2 front / 2 back made it an absolute deadly pig on the road, the tail & nose would corner at different rates, never tried 2 one side / 2 other.
Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2004 12:36 am
by Rorza
thx i spose the law would be similar in NSW. its a tough fine. Has anyone been caught and fined or anyone got away with it?
Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2004 10:38 am
by Area54
BFG MT (street tyres) on every rig in the driveway, two sidewall gashes (both repaired, now spares or on the trailer), but have mates that have holed/gashed heaps of MTRs and BFGs. They are radials - end of story - and they suck at trying to compare to bias plies. Got simex bias for the play stuff.
Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2004 10:50 am
by spazbot
Samuel wrote:An insurance company has to pay you unless its proven that you had exeeded the tires speed rating, and in most cases means that you were doing over the state limit anyway, so you have little chance of getting paid in the end.
that is unless your tyres are to big for your car or not speed rated , all they have to do is deem your car unroadworthy and they dont have to pay, if your tyres exceed the legal size for your rig say bye bye insurance
Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2004 11:10 am
by Area54
Some vehicles may also be illegal if fitted with bias ply tyres - not originally designed for bias tyres or offered as an option from the original vehicle manufacturer, ie hilux with split rims versus an SR5, or a standard DX van 80/100 versus GXL or VX.
Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2004 11:39 am
by slosh
So...... does everyone here have legal tyres?
Anyone sought engineer approval?
Would Rorza get approved wif the 35's on his Lux?
Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2004 12:16 pm
by Shadow
there was an F150 in sunnybank that had like 45's engineer approved about 3 years ago, and queensland transport eventually found a way to deem the vehicle unsafe even with an engineers certificate.
WHAT RUBBER
Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2004 10:50 am
by Madmac
I JUST BOUGHT A SET OF 31 X 10.5 R15 MOTORWAY REMOULDS IN THE MUD PATTERN. THEY GRIP REALLY WELL AND ARE RELATIVLY QUIET ON ROAD. AT $105 EACH WHO CARES IF YOU STAKE THE SIDEWALL.
Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2004 10:52 am
by spazbot
dude turn your caps lock off
reply hilux madness
Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2004 11:22 am
by Luv to 4B
I have got the same tyres MOTOWAY, i have found them to be pretty awsome so far, no punctures in real sharp rocks at low psi. They self clean well and the guy assured me they wouldn't peel. Great price too.
Im at uni and cant afford BFG's although i would prefer them, but the motoways are a good compromise for the price.
Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2004 2:07 pm
by 96_Lux
WRANGLER MTRS
Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 6:50 pm
by Walrus 4X4
u have no idea BFG's one of the best tyres u can buy