Which tyres for city/beach driving?

Marty · Post by **Marty** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 7:32 pm

G'day, I've done a search and found a few threads on tyres. I've got an L series with 3" body lift and 27s (was for sale a while ago but decided to keep it). It needs tyres so I'm wondering on others opinions. I do a lot of city driving and I find the 27s make the gearing a bit tall, especially when starting on hills. I don't drive serious offroad so the Super Trippers that are on it are probably overkill. What's a good tyre to go to that will lessen the rolling circumference whilest still be good up the beach? Maybe a 205/65/14 road tyre will do? Thanks, Marty.

vincentvega · Post by **vincentvega** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 7:40 pm

my old man used to run 195/65R14 michelin road tyres on his L.

went great on the beach. He never bothered airing down.

daza · Post by **daza** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 7:44 am

I was running 2 sets of tyres on the Brumby before i went Super Tripping.
One set was an aggressive retread 185R14, for rocks and mud.
The other set was 215x65x14 roadies for road and sand, they wern't bad on the beach, great on the road.
Daza.

AndrewT · Post by **AndrewT** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 11:22 am

yeah just normal road tyres will be fine, should be better than the trippers on sand too. You'd still want to get some reasonably tall ones purely to save the looks of the car, lifted cars look abit strange with mid to low profile tyres.

Marty · Post by **Marty** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 4:09 pm

Thanks for the advice guys. The benefit of going to a road tyre is also the lower cost I guess. I'll look into some 205/65s. You're right about lifted cars looking ridiculous if the tyres are too low in the profile.