Member Since: 30 Nov 2015
Location: Dubai
Posts: 161
change stock tyre R19 to R18
Anyone does change stock tyre R19 to R18? If yes, please share your tyre size for my reference
25th Feb 2018 7:51 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
Member Since: 11 May 2006
Location: Off again! :-)
Posts: 72774
255 60 18 is standard size, used them for most of the life of my D3, shame I can't with the D4.
25th Feb 2018 8:00 pm
Discogaz
Member Since: 17 Mar 2014
Location: Bracknell
Posts: 1399
265/65/18's on mine, work great.
25th Feb 2018 8:41 pm
z1234567890
Member Since: 30 Nov 2015
Location: Dubai
Posts: 161
does it need lift kit or spacer?
26th Feb 2018 5:40 pm
Discogaz
Member Since: 17 Mar 2014
Location: Bracknell
Posts: 1399
Nothing. No changes at all needed. No spacers, no lift.
The only slight reservation is there is a very small rub on full lock, adjusting the lock stops very slightly will cure this and on first fitting, until you've a few miles on this size, if you drop to the stops, they will rub on the arch line and leave you stranded. After maybe 1000 miles, they no longer rubbed.
I've been delighted with mine
26th Feb 2018 5:58 pm
z1234567890
Member Since: 30 Nov 2015
Location: Dubai
Posts: 161
that's cool, maybe you can avoid that rub by putting the lift kit, but is it recommended to put permanent lift kit?
Member Since: 17 Mar 2014
Location: Bracknell
Posts: 1399
A lift kit won't stop the rub at full lock and to be honest, the arch liner rub went away within a month or so of fitting. The initial rub was after I had the tires fitted, the fitter had played around with the height controls and the car had a hissy fit about 100 yards from the tire fitters and dropped to the stops.
No big deal as was hardly moving at the time anyway and she rose straight back up when asked to
and the next time she dropped to the stops, no rubbing so it may have simply been until the moulding marks had been worn off, that's how slight the rub was.
Maybe the guys flogging Johnson Rods should read this thread.
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