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BFGoodrich All Terrain T/A KO2 285/75 R16
hello

Landrover 90 CSW V8, 95% ON THE ROAD 5% IN FIELDS NOT REALLY OFF ROAD

would BF Goodrich All Terrain T/A KO2 285/75 R16 fit on standard boost alloys for my defender?
at present I have 30mm spacers fitted as well.

looking on line the 275x70x16 BFG are more expensive???????

also who is the cheapest at the moment in the UK?

thanks for your input.....................................cheers Ivan
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They can be made to fit but Boosts are under the recommended width for 285s.
Running them and 30mm spacers you'll have to get used to the sides of your car being covered in mud.

Fit them for the Tonka Toy look rather than for their practicality.
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cheers for this
I read some where that the maximum I could fit on a defender was 275x70x16, but for the life of me I cant find it on the web to check it

I don't want to spend the money and find out what I have fitted are absolutely c**p

many thanks
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"Standard" sizes are 265/75 and 235/85  1988 90 Td5 NAS soft top
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United Kingdom 2011 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 HT Corris Grey
big ives wrote:
cheers for this
I read some where that the maximum I could fit on a defender was 275x70x16, but for the life of me I cant find it on the web to check it

I don't want to spend the money and find out what I have fitted are absolutely c**p

many thanks


I've never seen anyone talking about tyres that size, they're certainly not one of the common ones.
Defenders have been fitted with 205R16 (basic 90s in the early days), 7.50R16 (most utility variants), 235/85R16 (the more bling ones with alloys from 300TDi onward pretty much), 265/75R16 (the NAS ones).

For taller tyres, 255/85R16 and 285/75R16 are the two common sizes but you can't get an all terrains in 255/85 in the UK.

No branded tyres are truly crap, there are just some tyres that are better at certain jobs. For the kind of off road driving that I do, wide BFG All Terrains don't work anything like as well as my 7.50 Michelins (and I can confidentially say that based on personal experience).

You get traction from the length of the contact patch in the direction of the force, rolling resistance from the amount of stuff that the tyre has to move out of the way (width and how much it sinks) and flotation from the total area in contact with the ground (width and length). Wide tyres obviously being better at high speed cornering and low profile wide tyres particularly so because you don't pull the inside of the tyre off the ground so much as you do with a higher profile tyre. For flotation you can let air out within the limits of your sidewall height and minimum inflation pressure - tyres don't get significantly wider but you greatly lengthen the contact patch. Obviously for a given pressure, the narrower the tyre is the longer the patch. To get the same length of patch with a wider tyre you run them at a lower pressure which should improve the ride.
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i run these tyres on mine with boosts, all is good and no spacers Cheers

James
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Ireland 2008 Defender 130 Puma 2.4 HCPU Alaska White
Just fitted 285 BFG AT's today on boost's and 30mm spacers. I'll post up some pictures tomorrow. Looks well on a 110. 130 TDCI High Capacity Pick up
D250 SE HT 110
Hybrid LWT on RR chassis, 3.5 v8
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^ ^ ^ will look forward to seeing the pics Thumbs Up 1996 Golf Blue 300Tdi 110 Pick up. Keeper.


Clayton.
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United Kingdom 1999 Defender 110 Td5 CSW Rioja Red
265/75 BFG AT's here, 30mm spacers. Sits very nicely indeed I think.
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NiallMeehan wrote:
Just fitted 285 BFG AT's today on boost's and 30mm spacers. I'll post up some pictures tomorrow. Looks well on a 110.


Hello Niall

yes would like to see these fitted to your yoke so a few pictures would be nice

if you don't mind me asking where did u buy these, down south or Cookstown??????????????????? cheers Ivan
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My Landy on 285/75/16 BFG ATīs.


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new tyres fitted they look the dogs Censored on the 90 Thumbs Up Thumbs Up well I think so Bow down Bow down

will post a few pictures Mr. Green Mr. Green
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and another set!
Fitted on ET0 (33mm further out than standard offset) 16x8 rims.



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as promised a few fotos from yesterday on a green lane run on Arranmore Island off the west coast of Southern Ireland
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as promised a few fotos from yesterday on a green lane run on Arranmore Island off the west coast of Southern Ireland
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