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| diesel_jim Member Since: 13 Oct 2008 Location: hiding Posts: 6036   
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They look good
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31st Oct 2019 9:04pm |
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| Sulisuli Member Since: 30 Oct 2016 Location: South west Posts: 4789 
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Be interesting to see how these perform James
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31st Oct 2019 9:04pm |
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| jst Member Since: 14 Jan 2008 Location: Taunton Posts: 7683 
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Will keep you posted. the roads around here are not great come winter and the benefit of better compound for the cold wont hurt either. at least it will stop better than the ATs and directional stability should be better. Cheers
James 110 XS Utility 130 Puma Station wagon/camper (in the making) 90 Puma Hardtop |
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31st Oct 2019 10:00pm |
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| JimC Member Since: 22 Jan 2011 Location: NOVA Posts: 164  
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I’ve got 8+ years on a set of those. Half the time I failed to take them off during the summer!
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1st Nov 2019 12:27am |
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| jst Member Since: 14 Jan 2008 Location: Taunton Posts: 7683
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I have read they wear well Cheers
James 110 XS Utility 130 Puma Station wagon/camper (in the making) 90 Puma Hardtop |
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1st Nov 2019 1:03am |
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| ericvv Member Since: 02 Jun 2011 Location: Near the Jet d'Eau Posts: 5816  
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Good choice, you won’t regret it. I ran the LT for 7 winters, now the LT2 are on and will enter their 3rd winter. Main reason I replaced the first LT set was that I also bought a new set of HD Wolfs, the genuine gloss black version. I was still on 80% with those LT, but thought after 7 years the rubber might have hardened a bit, and living a bit higher up above the lake now, better to play it optimally safe. The LT2 are also quieter than the LT, actually no difference with my summer GG TR. My tire center initially installed the new LT2 on the Wolfs using standard lead weights for balancing. In order to not damage the paint on these steel rims, now before each winter they are rebalanced leaving those original standard weights on, but adding glue on weights which each time can easily be removed again without paint damage. Sofar that works very well, wheels were just rebalanced and they never had to use more than 40 gram new glue on weights on a wheel.
Eric You never actually own a Defender. You merely look after it for the next generation. http://youtu.be/yVRlSsJwD0o https://youtu.be/vmPr3oTHndg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GtzTT9Pdl0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABqKPz28e6A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLZ49Jce_n0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvAsz_ilQYU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8tMHiX9lSw https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dxwjPuHIV7I https://vimeo.com/201482507 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSixqL0iyHw |
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1st Nov 2019 5:37am |
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| jst Member Since: 14 Jan 2008 Location: Taunton Posts: 7683
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cheers Eric. i am going to stick these on an old set of boosts and am not too worried about the rims for balancing wise so will just see how they go! The rims are winter set anyway so expecting some damage from corrosion. Bet we have a really mild winter now. Cheers
James 110 XS Utility 130 Puma Station wagon/camper (in the making) 90 Puma Hardtop |
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1st Nov 2019 7:57am |
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| Mdm Member Since: 11 Sep 2013 Location: Sunny Lancashire Posts: 1526
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we ran them on a bmw and they were great .we did some testing on corsa and ran 3 different brands and all were very good and all did 3 yrs of fair mileage .
cheaper ones wear rate was much higher then the nokians which did a 4 year and still had 3-4mm of tread at that age. i rate them as good as the Dunlop winters we ran before on various bmws at work. |
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1st Nov 2019 10:16am |
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| 90 Dreamer Member Since: 13 Jul 2019 Location: Oop North Posts: 2052
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silly question but whats the "%" marking on the tyre tread?
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1st Nov 2019 10:47am |
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| grafty99 Member Since: 15 Aug 2012 Location: North Devon Posts: 4784 
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Remaining tread depth.
As the tyres wear the percentages dissappear 2002 90 Td5 Station Wagon
1990 Vogue SE Triumph Tiger Explorer 1200 Td5 90 Thread http://www.defender2.net/forum/topic50767.html Tdi 110 Thread https://www.defender2.net/forum/topic69562.html RRC Thread http://www.defender2.net/forum/topic54492.html Instagram http://www.instagram.com/george_grafton |
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1st Nov 2019 10:52am |
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| 90 Dreamer Member Since: 13 Jul 2019 Location: Oop North Posts: 2052
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cheers, presumed that was the case but wasn't sure by the pix..........
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1st Nov 2019 11:35am |
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| SteveG Member Since: 29 Nov 2011 Location: Norfolk Posts: 656 
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You’ll also appreciate how good they are in the wet James, especially on dual carriage ways/motorways when you hit a bit of surface water at speed.
cheers, Steve |
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3rd Nov 2019 4:11pm |
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| jst Member Since: 14 Jan 2008 Location: Taunton Posts: 7683
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well its certainly wet to try them! pick up the rims tomorrow then straight to the tyre machine! Cheers
James 110 XS Utility 130 Puma Station wagon/camper (in the making) 90 Puma Hardtop |
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3rd Nov 2019 6:05pm |
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| pj2106 Member Since: 20 Dec 2012 Location: Huntingdon AKA The Shire Posts: 1500
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I’ve been looking at the cooper discoverer at3 4s anyone tried these? 2008 110 2.4 XS Utility (Hagrid)
2002 90 TD5 Hardtop (Sully) Sold 1998 300TDi D1 (Billy) Sold |
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3rd Nov 2019 6:25pm |
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