Alternative tyres for my Series 3

Currently repairing my 1981 SWB 2 1/4 petrol in preparation for its first MOT with me as its owner (don't hold out much hope!),after some scrote tried to nick it before Christmas.

After, turning the air blue removing the shear bolts from the mashed ignition barrell casing, I was looking at the tyres which are perished on the side walls and am considering getting some new ones.

Can anyone on here recommend a tyre that would be for road use mostly with maybe some light off road use?, and also what size would fit these rims (which I know need cleaning up..) ie 235/85/R16.

Cheers in advance...

PS none of my photos uploaded in their current format, I had to shrink this image to a piddly size to get it to upload.

they are 7.50 r 16's but 205/85/r16's should fit fine on 7.50 rims, ive got that set up

you can still get hold of 7 50s easily mate, so id stick with them. and you wont go far wrong in terms of gearing and such then

I have 265/85R16's on black modulars on mine. Totally standard. Cost £560 for the full set delivered.

Fit no problem. No rubbing and no steering lock issues.

Cracking, cheers for this guys, need to convince the wife to let me buy them now! Lol:biggrin1:

Landrovernewbie said:

Cracking, cheers for this guys, need to convince the wife to let me buy them now! Lol:biggrin1:

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Just let her go buy a handbag and some shoes and what can she say

V8jon said:

Just let her go buy a handbag and some shoes and what can she say

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If its anything like when I bought the old girl home (the landy that is) she'll have plenty to say! Oops

Landrovernewbie said:

If its anything like when I bought the old girl home (the landy that is) she'll have plenty to say! Oops

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Wait till you bring 2 home like i did,she didn't speak to me for a week..........................the silence was bliss!!

Stumpy 1970 said:

I have 265/85R16's on black modulars on mine. Totally standard. Cost £560 for the full set delivered.

Fit no problem. No rubbing and no steering lock issues.

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Hi Stumpy1970. I'm new on this today and have a series 3 swb, currently with 225/75/R16 fitted. Suspension is all standard and I'm looking to replace the shocks with standard again - is the suspension on yours standard or did you have to raise it a bit to fit the larger tyres?

SWB look good on 750/16 I have only ever run on 205/80/16
Plentiful and cheap (early Disco size) never got stuck. If I was throwing money at it I would go for early Debender tubeless rims to save the tubes in tubeless tyres hassel.

265 BFG chunkies (75 profile, I think) on white 8-spokes here. They're huge and ridiculously heavy. I've got 225/75 road-biased winters on the way to go onto Disco steels.

The 265s are borderline as to whether they stick beyond the standard arches - which is why somebody's put plastic lips on at some stage.

I run 205 80 16 on LWB rims on my 88" happy with them

I had series steel wheels on my last landy and when the XZLs wore out, I got Kingpin Mud Tracker in 750 16 and they looked great. Also surprisingly good in the rough stuff, and very cheap. Road noise wasn't the best but not as bad as some.

On my current landy I've got 750 16 avon rangemaster on defender steel wheels and these seem fine although have mixed reviews in the wet.

PS Both are in-keeping with the classic style of a series landy I think, so look much better.