Love the vintage tires! I have a base model Jeep CJ7 I am restoring with original white steelies and white hardtop. Love what you’re doing here!

Great effort. Good to see there is a soul mate. I got a 964 and. 97 300 TDI 110...I think these are best buddies!

Lovely Landie looking grand on his new old rims. The original is always the best 👍🏻

Looks excellent!

Great workshop 👍

Wow, looks so cool with the original tyres, looks much more agricultural which is nice 👍🏽. Great video

You have helped me make my mind up , I’m going to do exactly the same 👍🏻

They look great 😊👍

great video

Lovely your Landy Joel. I also prefer the original rims, I feel like the bigger ones draw the eyes to the wheels instead of the car. I am glad I did not buy a set of Wolfs I wanted to buy because of yours...this demonstration is actually very useful. Take care and thank you for keep showing us your awesome Landy.

750's look mint 👌

Much better with the original rims.

So nice sir

Original 👍

I’d been running my 80” at 30psi - and someone suggested that was too hard for them and gave a harsh drive…. So I dropped them to 27/28 (can’t remember which) and I couldn’t believe the difference - not only was it more comfortable but it’s road holding improved enormously.

Def prefer the original rims. Looks great !

The skinny ones look correct on the series LRs. The wolfs look better on the Defenders! Get some new tires mate!

I think lots of landy owners will dispute your definition of "bit of a mess" in those wheel wells! +1 for the original rims too!

I run a 1970 LWB with as a camper (pop up roof etc) and I recently swapped from std rims to Wolfs plus 235/85 and I find it much better to drive. Better steering, and safer with the tubeless rims and tyres and a bigger choice of tyres (at better prices too) for the wider Wolf rim than the narrow (5 1/2J) std rim.

Definitely a more classic look on the original steels. I went over to Wolf wheels because they are tubeless, I seemed to suffer endless punctures with tubes, probably down to rough old rims and incompatible tyres. Love the sound of your Land Rover, sounds very sprightly and it definitely looks so right on those wheels. As for the tramlining, that's the downside of those kind of tyres. WRD is going to end up on some narrower tyres soon, but staying on the wolf wheels.

It does look more original with the 750s but I prefer the look of the Wolf's I think.

Mache 7.50r16 Michelin XZL drauf , ein Traumreifen

Looks better with the original Land Rover wheels. Never been fond of the wolf rims on the older series. Understand better road and handling. Just like the older rims and narrow tires👍

I have a 109 with Avon Rangemaster 7.50R16 (the R is for radial) which was factory fit for many years on new Land Rover Defenders. In the UK they cost little more than cheap and nasty imports (sub-£100 each plus £15 for a tube). They are tube type but I find the on-road behaviour is very good, no wandering, and this is on a Stage 1 V8 which will do 70mph. An alternative is the excellent but more expensive Michelin Latitude Cross 7.50R16 (also available in 235/85R16) which is marked "tubeless may be used with tubes". The Avon looks more period but the Latitude Cross probably wins in terms of roadholding. With the Defender 5.5x16 tubeless rims (which look almost identical to originals except for the tubeless bead) you could run the Michelins tubeless. My 88" runs the Defender tubeless rims with 205/85R16 modern tubeless tyres. 205s were an optional factory fit towards the end of Series 3 production and into the early coil sprung Ninety era. 205s look good on an 88" but too small for a 109. If/when the 88 needs new tyres I'll go for Latitude Cross 7.50s.

In my opinion, on a Series 3, the original rims look so much better than the Wolf rims. These rims and wider tyres go perfectly with the wider track of the Defender body with the plastic wheel arches, but the narrow 7.5 tyres fit perfectly to the series-body. I had modern Dotz-style rims on my 109, which allowed me to drive tubeless tyres, but the overall look of the car just did not feel right. I changed to the original rims and Avon Rangemaster Tyres two weeks ago and now it looks again like a Landy!

Hi Joel, glad to see you back on the series 3. Am I correct in thinking that the tyres are all tubed? If so, the air leaking around the valve stem is probably normal. When you inflate tubed tyres, air trapped between the tube and rim has to escape through the hole by the valve stem. That’s why the stem has flutes up the side, to allow the air to escape. You should find the air leaks will eventually stop.

original! 👍

I've always been carefully with the powerwasher - sometimes, paint flakes off. One point for sure, never shoot to the sidewalls of the tyres.

I am liked so much sir

It looks much more better with original rims. In Spain, you cant put 7,50x16 on 88" but only on 109". We must use 6.00x16 because of the MOT. Congrats for the channel!!

I used to run tyres with similar tread like the ones made in Malaysia that you put on. They were totally useless in the snow and pretty much useless everywhere else. Only good for maybe a short trip to the local supermarket. I understand that you made this swap purely to check the aesthetics but you ended up with 2 dissimilar tyres on the rear axle, which is not the best situation for your rear diff.

Hi mate I like the classic look of the cross-ply, and I think series landys steer better on them (as in play at steering wheel ) i' m pretty sure on series 3s you have less toe in if you run radials I think if your only doing 85 km an hour radials are no advantage apart from sand driving ,and at higher speeds the cornering and braking are better , but in the Aussi bush cross-plys are more forgiving less sidewall punctures I my opinion. I have landys that run both types .cheers R

For me the bigger ones look better! Just ordered them for mine… By the way, did your bonnet suffer the weight of the wheel? Doesn’t look very straight.. is that possible? Will be mounting a wheel on my bonnet too, hope it won’t do any damage with the time…

Your 7.50-16 are bias plys. They have more internal friction than the 235 radials. So the car uses more petrol with the 7.50 even thoug they are less wide. Also they wander around a lot more and get flat spots on them every time you park the car and therefor give a bumpy ride for a few minutes. There are new 7.50-16 tires for sale that are radials.

wolf rims.....as they remind me of my tubeless off-road 16"x 235 modular rims and tyres

Narrow tires look best on Series Land Rovers!

Upgrade!!

Sorry if this has been mentioned before, but what gearing does your speedometer have? The 88" originally had a speedo geared for 6:50 (approx 205/80) tyres, so with 7:50s it will under read by a noticeable amount. I went back to 205s for this reason.

Looks great on the 7.50s. Funnily enough I run two sets of rims on my 110, original wolf rims with 235 mud tures, and 5.5" rims with Michelin 7.50s on. It looks so much better on the Wolf rims but I get 20% better fuel economy on the Michelins.

There’s a simplistic formula [((weight on axle /2)/max load)*max psi] in absence of official pressures from your operator manual (if you still have it) but works better on tubeless Your tyre max load showed 1000kg@350kPa which is approx 50psi Say, specified load on axle is 1100 you do 1100/2=550 then (50*550)/1000 = 28psi (cold) but then it’s adjusted to suit the tyres I run my 235/85 r16 Davanti’s on my 90 higher than I did the BFG’s cos the sidewall is softer so the extra pressure reduces deformation @36psi all round so about the same as your pressures

Bet the leak is from air trapped between tube and tyre. On my 2a 88 inch I have 760 crossply on and they are good of road but terrible on road. My opinion is I would stick to your nice radicals. Also be aware of wet roads on crossply as you get into a lot of trouble. Here in Johannesburg it's usually hot and dry and the crossply are good with pot holes and bricks and rock on the roads.

The problem with that type of tyre They're a bit scary when driving on a wet Road the back-end seems to go on you but it's completely controllable and fun

You can get steel 110 rims which are tubeless. I’ve got them on my 109 with 750s on. Michelin XPC.Don’t you have to have another MOT type test if you change the tyres?

Greetings from Canada where due to salt on winter roads Series L/R are few and far between. Years ago I had a short wheelbase 2A. I do wonder why you would think of driving around on 20 year old cross-ply tires when you have new radial tires with a "D" load rating and "Q" speed rating.

ORIGINALS!!!!

I like the newer wheels. The purists commenting seem to prefer the originals.

Original rims for sure are better. Were the wolf rims 235x85x16? I think the 7.50 x16 will be worse off road as they dont flex as much. They prob have like 8-11 plies.

need to figure out tires for my old ih c120 pickup that has 7.5 x 16 tires as well theyre prolly from the 80's on it

Leave the Original Rims on it!

Apparently not the consensus, but I liked the set with the Wrangler tires on them a lot better. The ones that were on it when the video started.....

Leave the Original Rims on it! Keep it Original

Доброго здоров'я привіт з Одеси Україна.

Original 👍