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superspeed3065



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Post #401580 23rd Dec 2020 12:14 pm
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Lightwater



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Re: wheels

superspeed3065 wrote:
17" rims and tyres will have a taller sidewall to be the same circumference as the 19" rims and tyres but will have more flex in the tyre wall so a little less bumpy over small road imperfections

Tyres at 24 PSI. 18 inch 'poodle' rims with larger 255/60R18 tyres are ok, but one really should have 17 inch 'non poodle' rims, especially when driving on these roads day after day a 1000+ km. 19 inch 'extra poodle' rims will knock the car to pieces. I have broken the roof rack twice on different holidays on these roads at 24 PSI.
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Post #401583 23rd Dec 2020 12:48 pm
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Post #401807 29th Dec 2020 11:23 am
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Kage



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Re: wheels

Lightwater wrote:
superspeed3065 wrote:
17" rims and tyres will have a taller sidewall to be the same circumference as the 19" rims and tyres but will have more flex in the tyre wall so a little less bumpy over small road imperfections

Tyres at 24 PSI. 18 inch 'poodle' rims with larger 255/60R18 tyres are ok, but one really should have 17 inch 'non poodle' rims, especially when driving on these roads day after day a 1000+ km. 19 inch 'extra poodle' rims will knock the car to pieces. I have broken the roof rack twice on different holidays on these roads at 24 PSI.
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Take your point Lightwater, but here in the UK we don’t regularly drive 1000+ km, almost from one end of the country to the other, and if we did, the road surface would be a little better than you have in Australia. So I’m happy to stick with my 19” ‘poodle rims’ as you so like to call them.
No doubt your set up is eminently suitable for the conditions that you regularly experience, but we don’t have an outback here. (Some will disagree)!
The cost in changing to a smaller rim, for me at least, wouldn’t justify any perceived level of increased comfort or performance.
Post #401847 29th Dec 2020 9:05 pm
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And your car would look silly.
Post #401854 30th Dec 2020 6:52 am
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And your car would look silly.

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Post #402185 5th Jan 2021 1:11 am
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Not many sand dunes here in rural Wiltshire... Rolling Eyes
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Post #402653 13th Jan 2021 10:16 pm
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Congrats
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Many on this forum have come from Disco 2 in the past.

Major problem the boot just isn't as big as what you were used to. Mad

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We have had 1 disco 1, 2 disco 2's and 1 disco 3 in our past and all of them have been great cars but old age sets in with us and so we now have a freelander 2. The fact it is an SD4 with plenty of knobs and whistles to keep the brain alive makes it a great choice now that we are used to not towing diggers and carrying the heaps of stuff that used to go in back of the discos. I fancied an Evoque but she who I must obey doesn't like them to look at so the SD4 it is! and we still have the high sitting position that we are used to.
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superspeed3065



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United Kingdom 2013 Freelander 2 SD4 XS Auto Firenze Red

We have had 1 disco 1, 2 disco 2's and 1 disco 3 in our past and all of them have been great cars but old age sets in with us and so we now have a freelander 2. The fact it is an SD4 with plenty of knobs and whistles to keep the brain alive makes it a great choice now that we are used to not carrying the heaps of stuff that used to go in back of the discos. I fancied an Evoque but she who I must obey doesn't like them to look at so the SD4 it is! and we still have the high sitting position that we are used to.
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