With Gary retiring from full time work and drawing his pension we dug deep in our pockets and decided to buy some alloy wheels and decent tyres at last.
We found these Motorhome Commercial load rated wheels on Ebay, they are from a company called Wheels Direct, it was a pleasure to deal with Gary (the owner) direct and he included a nice set of locking wheel nuts free because we opted to deal with him direct on Tel. 07854 911679
Its worth a mention at this point that after much reading on many forums for the Citroen Relay, Fiat Ducato that we decided to go up a wheel size from 15" wheels to 16" wheels. Most advice is the bigger wheels improve handling and bring the speedo variation into more or less a true reading, dependant on the choice of tyres.
Tyres?? There are more tyres out there than you can shake a stick at!
After much thought a deliberation, we opted for some serious Mud Terrain tyres. We chose to go with Kumho Road Venture MT51 tyres, load rated to 112/115 to accommodate the weight of the van being loaded after its completed build and conversion into a motorhome.
Whilst changing the wheels, it had to be done, we painted the brake callipers as they are now clearly visible after fitting the new alloy wheels.
Were well pleased with the end result, the wheels and tyres look great, hopefully they will achieve the ultimate end goal in giving us an edge in slippery conditions in the future.
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