Winter Tyres

[FarmerPug]

If your planning a suspension raise get a thread going of your progress, it will be interesting for when i get round to doing it on the suzuki, sometime i hope to get the 5" lift kit, then the bigger tyres will be put on, then ill be able to coupe with more ease.

[DiscoPol]

If your planning a suspension raise get a thread going of your progress, it will be interesting for when i get round to doing it on the suzuki, sometime i hope to get the 5" lift kit, then the bigger tyres will be put on, then ill be able to coupe with more ease.

if the godlike admins will allow such a thing then i will indeed stick up a thread on the progress of the lift and other little mods im gonna do, i know we have a few closet off roaders on here who im hoping will be happy to share/mock/aid/advise on the mods

but for now here are the pics of my new A/T tyres that are possible the best 1200 zloty i have ever spent on something car related


and a pic of the tractor with them on


they are the Doggy's Danglies in the soft stuff and very well behaved on tarmac, on compacted snow they dig a lovely groove out but on ice they are just as useless as anything else,

*i have just read back my comment and got an awful mental image i cant shift now of "our" Doggy's danglies, urghh that will haunt me forever

[FarmerPug]

I need to get a/t tyres for my suzuki, they are slicker than road tyres but yet it never got stuck when it was going, just could have done with more traction. Have you got locking diffs.

[DiscoPol]

Have you got locking diffs.

just the standard land rover centre diff lock, to give 50-50 split front to rear but if i lose traction on one front wheel and one rear wheel i become "cross axled" and its game over, only happened once and that was all my own bloody fault for testing how deep the water was with all four wheels

[FarmerPug]

cross axling is crap, why when one wheels got ample traction does it give it all away to the wheel in bloody mid air, does it think it can blow its way out. I was thinking of putting locking diffs on the suzuki but at £500 id prefer to pull it out.

[steve_earwig]

If you're only going to drive it across fields and such why not weld the diffs up?

[FarmerPug]

it chews the ground up real bad

[grasmere59]

Just fitted a pair of Goodyear ultragrip 7+ m+s tyres to the front of mine,never tried winter tyres before but a mate of mine fitted them to the front of his 2.1td and last year he said he was the only car able to get out of his housing estate (except 4x4's) so i will see how it goes.

[grasmere59]

Well tried the winter tyres out in anger today (Derby to Oxford) and what a difference over normal tyres,well impressed,hardly any wheelspin and the car goes basically where you want it to go,best money i've spent in a long time!