Discovery 2 tyre help

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Hi got a disco 2 (2004) on standard suspension. What is the largest size of tyre and wheel that you would go for to still be able to off road with? May be open to cutting away a bit of body work in the future but for now, what can I do? Looked at 265/75/r16 Insa Turbo special tracks but reckon these are way too big. Cheers in advance
 
Hi,

You might want to search for this as it has been discussed on many occasions, also an intro in the introduce yourself section is often invited.

One thing to think about is, what size do you have and are you changing wheels?

Cheers
 
neilly said:
Hi,

You might want to search for this as it has been discussed on many occasions, also an intro in the introduce yourself section is often invited.

One thing to think about is, what size do you have and are you changing wheels?

Cheers
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Right. Sorry will do an introduction on that page now haha. Got 255/55/R18 on at the moment. Will not be keeping the wheels.
 
biggeeeee said:
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They either come on here and start a new fred about tyres within their first half hour, or they spend hours researching the existing threads to find the oldest possible and use it to ask about tyres.
Here's a suggestion, you take a perfectly good vehicle then screw up the look of it by taking a disc cutter to it, then you rip out the self levelling air suspension and put it on coils because your mate down the pub says it's the thing to do. Then you screw up the handling even further by just ripping off the active cornnering enhancement, because the same mate says it's the work of the devil, then you start lifting the body which incidentally doesn't do much for your ground clearance because the axles are still the same distance off the ground, so you decide you need some big huge knobbly tyres, and you wonder why it handles like a wallowing pig and why the old bill pulls you for speeding 'cos you speedo is now way off.
And the girls will think "There's no way that I'm getting into that heap of crap.
As they say, you can always tell a 19 year old, but you can't tell him much.
 
brian47 said:
They either come on here and start a new fred about tyres within their first half hour, or they spend hours researching the existing threads to find the oldest possible and use it to ask about tyres.
Here's a suggestion, you take a perfectly good vehicle then screw up the look of it by taking a disc cutter to it, then you rip out the self levelling air suspension and put it on coils because your mate down the pub says it's the thing to do. Then you screw up the handling even further by just ripping off the active cornnering enhancement, because the same mate says it's the work of the devil, then you start lifting the body which incidentally doesn't do much for your ground clearance because the axles are still the same distance off the ground, so you decide you need some big huge knobbly tyres, and you wonder why it handles like a wallowing pig and why the old bill pulls you for speeding 'cos you speedo is now way off.
And the girls will think "There's no way that I'm getting into that heap of crap.
As they say, you can always tell a 19 year old, but you can't tell him much.
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Better now? :)
 
neilly said:
Tomorrow then, but pet us remember we were all young once. .......

Cheers
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Yeah, we were all young once, I'll let you know about it when my first childhood ends and the second one begins.
Back in the day, we were all thinking about getting as much fuel and air into the cylinders, making it go bang and getting rid of the waste as quick as possible. My old Morris 1000 van could do 66 mph in third gear!
 
brian47 said:
Yeah, we were all young once, I'll let you know about it when my first childhood ends and the second one begins.
Back in the day, we were all thinking about getting as much fuel and air into the cylinders, making it go bang and getting rid of the waste as quick as possible. My old Morris 1000 van could do 66 mph in third gear!
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Think your problem is Brian that your "older threads" with all the information on are where your "mate from the pub" spends most of his time. Only way to know the information is correct is to make a new thread and hope you get someone who knows what they're on about. Anyway, questions been answered, ta all
 
Don't forget that a D2 is pretty capable as it is with standard tyres, although 16" are better than 18" for ride comfort.

We went laning last year at the Landy meet and with four in the car we only got stuck once when the ruts were so deep that we bottomed out on our LPG tanks.

Peter
 
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