Leighton wheels quality & tyre sizes
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I would avoid any colour that involves any diamond cut style finish. I have LV1 wheels and the polished face hasn't aged well.
I did wonder what blistering was!
The white worm is a killer...
Those are some big tyre sizes!
Recommended by Steve @CRS Performance He's never wrong! With his suspension and those CC2's the van has never felt so good or sure-footed even on wet and frozen lands!
Completely wrong rolling radius , if your planning on going low you’ll have chaffage , tyres are far too big, just check “will they fit” website , put in your original tyre size and your new tyre size, see how much your speedo, rolling radius etc are out . Only reason they use these tyre sizes are they’re load rated and common sizes on range rovers etc . There’s plenty of posts on here about tyre sizes just use the search function above .
Fortunately not going low @F2JON , why would Steve @CRS Performance tell more than just me to use these tyre sizes, at the time he was in no position to benefit, he wasn't selling tyres.
When I bought the van it had 275/35's all round which I agree is ridiculous on the fronts, he told me what to buy from my local tyre place, in my case Shenstone trade tyres who you probably know.
The speedo is at 58mph when maps app says 60mph. There is no scuffage/rubbage whatsoever and it drives like a dream.
For me 245/45 on the front and 275/40 on the rear works, I will never go low!
When I bought the van it had 275/35's all round which I agree is ridiculous on the fronts, he told me what to buy from my local tyre place, in my case Shenstone trade tyres who you probably know.
The speedo is at 58mph when maps app says 60mph. There is no scuffage/rubbage whatsoever and it drives like a dream.
For me 245/45 on the front and 275/40 on the rear works, I will never go low!
I’ll tell you why , because he doesn’t set his coilovers low at all (compared to most) to keep comfort as with most coilivers the lower you go the harder it gets , so to make up the arch gap and to add more comfort he recommends fatter tyres, if you put the correct size tyres on you’d find you’d still have a massive arch gap, Leighton vans do the same , they fit 265/40/20 to they’re wheels .
My LV1’s went that way so I sanded the laquer off the polished faces and then took them to a bare polished finish using wet and dry and finished with autosol.
Been ok since. But they need a quick polish with autosol every time I clean the van.
LV 275 40 20 all the way our offering isnt fatter its narrower than most people recommend and it works as you can see from the comments .
Since you are making this claim, Explain how this is the case.....
F2 jon has air on his van now and the lower that goes the softer the air bag is but it will bottom out all the time if you drive it too low .
Indeed, and that's the biggest flaw in most airbag setups. Its softest when you need it firmest (if you plan to drive it low). I've never come across a transporter setup that has the threaded bodies to allow the height to be adjusted independent of the air bag pressure.
I was more interested to hear his explanation of how a coilover get stiffer when lowered......
Ditto , not a fan of air at all , we do remove loads of it here at our workshop .
I’m sure Steve will explain if you want to give him a call, hence why people who want to run low coilovers do the hub mod on the fronts , to allow more travel on the shock absorber . As for air , I had it more for the fact you can set it at any height by the push of a button , I don’t think that it’s quite as comfortable as my solow coilovers I had on before but the usability allows me to run low, high and everthing in between . But I will say it’s far more comfortable than my bilstein b14’s were and most other vans I’ve been in with other coilovers . @Pewt lol just another Tyre, suspension thread lmao
More importantly Steve @CRS Performance when is this rumoured shindig at your gaff for the T6F crowd? Free T Shirts and nibbles I've heard? (Many thanks to the search function @F2JON )
