Freelander 1 What size wheels and which tyres for a bit of green lane driving?

Hi Rob, there are stacks of good make tyres out there that will perform equally well. Ask many people and you will get many answers. Ask many tyre specialists and you will also get many answers.
In your sizes, wrangler at's are good (they are crap in 15" as the tread pattern is completely different )- cooper tyres are excellent and the AVON ranger A/T's (as I have on mine) - are superb (Cooper and Avon are same group)
I think you can end up going round in circles ... Just chose one of the well known makes from their 50:50 range and you will be fine.

Ha! Yes, probably around and around in black circles! LOL

rob_bell said:

Ha! Yes, probably around and around in black circles! LOL

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yup, especially when you get the turbo on.

rob_bell said:

Ha! Yes, probably around and around in black circles! LOL

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As Joe said. Tyres are a very individual thing.
My ultimate preference is the Pirelli Scorton ATR. However they don't do them in a size I'm happy with for the Freelander.
I'd not be unhappy with Cooper tyres or there European Avon cousins. Goodyear Wranglers are also a good, slightly road biased tyre too.
I found that 17' is a bugger to get what I wanted. There's not much choice at all. Hence I got the best I could find that fitted my needs.

Joe_H said:

yup, especially when you get the turbo on.

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Likely to go through quite a lot of tyres then! LOL

I had a very stringent set of requirements for my tyres. Primarily they had to fit my 15" wheels - that was the most stringent. Sub-primarily they had to be cheap. I didn't wish to complicate these demanding criteria, but I also added that I had to have heard of the company making them before, and not (just) from law suits.

I knew I was being very pedantic with my requirements, but I did manage to tick all my boxes...... and ended up with van tyres

GT Radial Maxmilers - pumped to 40 PSI - they'll do umpteen K kms on a Transit carrying pallets of lead, so after 3 years being on my Freelander, the shiney newness has only just worn off. I've never slid off the road and never got stuck and I bet I take my 2WD Freelander places some pusseys with 4WD trucks and mud tyres wouldn't conceive of going

I have a brand new Toto Open-Country AT as my spare. So new it still has the painted lines on the tread, but it was made in 2008.
It certainly looks to be a better tyre than the Firestones on the rest of the wheels.
They are all coming off tomorrow, being replaced by General Grabbers.