Advice on Winter Tyre and Wheel package

Hi.
I have a 2002 Discovery, I am wanting to get a set of cheap steel wheels and winter tyres for the upcoming snow. I am struggling to find a package for the Disco 2.
Any good sources or advice?

Always loads of advise here.... but... good???..


Anyway, what are you after? Are you running on roads that`ll be salted and slushy, or virgin snow on country lanes or what?

I live up a country lane in Perthshire. So last year was a lot of snow, rather than swop tyres over I thought a spare set of wheel I can swop myself and run for the winter months. Most steel wheel packages new seem to be only for a Discovery Mk 1.
Am I better getting a set of used 16" wheels and just fit new tyres? Not worried about looks.
Should I go for off road or Winter specific?
Thanks for your help.

I don`t know of any packages so guess you`ll just have to trawl the net to find the best option... (that`s your Sunday taken care of!). I`d imagine s-hand wheels with new tyres is gonna be cheapest tho.
I live in the sticks here, and have about 20km until I get to a well gritted road in winter. I run on Kumho RoadVenture MTs. There`re marked as M+S. They do OK for me.
Since you`re likely to have snow more often & for longer than most of us, maybe invest in a set of snow chains? They are a pain to fit, and will need to come off when running on tarmac but will get you thro most anything including hardpacked snow/ice. Not cheap and could damage alloys tho. Depends on your requirements really. If it`s bad enough to need chains have a day off??

You've got to think of the entire journey. Chains are the thing if it's all going to be on snow. However if you're driving into a town then you'll probably find that it's been ploughed and swept so the chains have to come off.
I had exactly the same issue getting up into Perthshire last New Year. Freezing rain giving sheet ice over the Forth Bridge. Freezing slush and fresh snow up to Perth, then fairly clear roads in Perth and four feet drifts on the lane into the farm.

I'm investigating these snow socks - easier to store and whip on and off than chains - but I think that a second hand set of wheels fitted with snow tyres is the way I'll go. If you don't care what the wheels look like - you could clean and paint them I suppose - you can pick them up quite cheaply and I expect the tyres to last a fair few years.

I've just bought at2's from camskills and a new set of 16 disco wheels off ebay for the winter / off roading, on my p38 untill i get my D2 on the road.

steve's P38 RR said:

I've just bought at2's from camskills and a new set of 16 disco wheels off ebay for the winter / off roading, on my p38 untill i get my D2 on the road.

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Go on then, how much?

jamesie said:

Go on then, how much?

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£514

I am wanting to do the same with my d2. Paddocks sell steel wheels cheap as chips Disco 2 Aftermarket Steel Wheels | Steel Wheels | Wheels & Tyres and to compliment them I am going to get Details: Pirelli Scorpion ICE + SNOW 235/70 R16 105T RB RBL - mytyres.co.uk I have read up a lot and the pirelli snow and ice is fantastic.

I'm in Scotland and drove through all weathers last year, and year before, with Goodyear Wranglers. OE tyre as fitted by Land Rover. Didn't get stuck once. Don't think I'll be throwing away ££££'s on "snow tyres".

steve's P38 RR said:

£514

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thank you.

tbh my cousin as a disco 1 with all odd tyres on cheap and nasty ones at that and it was perfect in the deep snow and ice last year.