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new wheel and tyres for the mafia staff car
Just got a new set of boots for the MSC and they change the look of the patrol for the better I reckon (still have the originals and they will go on for the really long stints in between trips). A couple of the pics also show the Stedi LED driving lights.
Tyres are General Grabber SRL's LT275/70R18, these are a 10ply tyre with a load/speed index of 125Q, a load rating of E and a max load for each tyre of 1650kg.
Wheels are CSA Raptor (large caps) 18" x 8" with a 25pos offset (recommended by CSA) with a load rating of 1250kg (283-880P25-67A)
The wheels clear the front calipers nicely, the tyres don't touch anything when turning the wheel from lock to lock. The spare tyre had to be deflated quite a bit to get it to fit into the spare wheel well, but I do have an on-board compressor to pump it up if needed. Could have got away with the spare inflated but needed to space the tyre down about a centimetre or so, but that drops it down below the diff pumpkin and not really that keen on having it that low but will investigate it further if it becomes a pita having the spare deflated......
Haven't had a chance to get them dirty yet but the handle reasonably well in the wet. The roads where slightly greasy in places and while I can feel it understeer when pushing a little bit too hard through corners, it handled it all pretty well especially for a tyre that doesn't have any sipes.
In the dry they handle pretty bloody good for an aggressive all-terrain tyre, I can take off from a standing start fairly quickly and not light them up (foot to the floor stuff will see them light up). I feel pretty confident that these tyres will do the job I need them to do.
Yep, they do give off more road noise than the originals and to be perfectly honest probably less than the MT MTZ's I had on our GU, but nothing that is in anyway intrusive and if going by the stereo test I have to only turn it up one more notch to really drown out the extra road noise they give off, they really have done a pretty good job at reducing the 'howl' of these tyres. What they will be like with 50-60 thousand k's on them, who knows!
FYI General Tire are running a bit of a sale at the moment with the SRL's, I got ours for $395ea instead of $495ea.