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Post by 3litrekiwi on May 3, 2020 9:27:49 GMT
I finished fitting five new tyres today. They are cheapies as this project has cost a bit more than I innitially planned and the set the car came with were made in 2002. I would like to do a bit of driving before phase 2. I also wasn't comfortable with tubes, prefering to go back to tubeless. I've always stuck with well known brands in the past but decided to make a temporary exception and the Rover is not intended for spirited driving. My rims were not great with a bit of rust on the sealing surfaces. I had a garage remove one tyre before the lockdown, took one off myself and had the other three removed last week. I stripped the paint off, epoxied the rust, refinished the sealing surfaces and repainted the wheels. The plan was to get the tyres on and get them ballanced this week and that is still going to happen however I went for a drive this afternoon and what a surprise. I thought that with four unballanced wheels, shod with cheap tyres I might be in for a wild ride so headed off intending to stick to 50km/h roads. There was a stretch that was 70 and there was no shimmy at all. So on the way home I hit the motorway. I thought I would find the point that the unballance started to show up. With 70mph on the speedo nothing, smooth as silk. Interesting for a set of tyres that were $79 each. Cheers Martin
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New tyres
May 3, 2020 15:19:13 GMT
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Post by stirlingmg on May 3, 2020 15:19:13 GMT
Even Chinese plastic death rings have improved a lot in recent years, I’ve had various different ones on my ZT260 and it hasn’t spat me backwards into a hedge yet, it should have continentals on but when you need to change them every 5000 miles it gets cheapies on the back
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