Carry too much speed and run too high a tyre pressure on the dirt and you can expect tyre failure on the stock rubber.
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WHEELIE, WHEELIE By David Wilson Is it a twenty-inch, maybe a nineteen, perhaps an eighteen? Nup, none of them. In the quest to stop the modern vehicle in the shortest possible distance, the world’s gone barking mad.
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W driving is something we do a lot of here in Australia, likely more so than just about anywhere else on the planet and because of that we should be demanding something better of new vehicle makers. Because they all know that ninety percent of 4WD owners don’t go bush, they fit tyres up as standard, in highway issue, paper-thin, with a uniform pattern, unable to carry much of a load and far from fit-for-purpose.
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Point them at a dirt road and you can almost hear the air escaping before the first puncture has been suffered. Whenever I’m testing a new vehicle it’s the auto equivalent of walking on eggshells. Back to wheel sizes. When you put a bigger brake on a vehicle you need a bigger wheel to go around it and an amount of space to clear the brake rotor and caliper to allow for errant rocks to rattle around inside the void without crashing into things. I get that bigger brakes makes a vehicle safer in an emergency stop, but what I don’t get, is a bigger wheel size that’s more to do with fashion. I recently read a post by a bloke called Ash on the Toyota Prado Owners of Australia Western 4W Driver #121 |
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