Cooper Zeon?

http://www.disco3.co.uk/forum/topic32452.html?highlight=zeon

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Your tyres were not illegal

As long as the CENTRE 2/3 thirds have got more than 1.6mm of tred then they are legal. The outer edges of the Conti's wear badly and look very bad.......but they are legal.

Tred depth indicators are set at 1.6 mm. It is widely beleived that 2mm is a safer time to change your tyres particularly during the winter months. TDV6 - gone
TDV8 - gone
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Josh,

Your answer has made me look into this in a bit more depth and you are quite correct. Looks like the guy from
the Authorised Land Rover Repairer was either spinning me a line or hadn't read his Tyre Law properly!
If the GVW of the RRS was over 3500Kg then he would be correct but as the GVW of an RRS is only 2,480-2586 kg then the law clearly shows that there is no need to have visible pattern on the outer edge if it is less than 25% of the surface area. I found this out on a nicely laid out site here : - http://www.etyres.co.uk/uk-tyre-law Worth a look if anyone wants the facts.

Paulo, Sorry for giving you a bum stear mate but I trusted what the guy from Kinghorn was telling me  2013 Discovery HSE Luxury - 3.0 SDV6 - Santorini Black
2013 Evoque 5 Door Pure Tech SD4 - Orkney Grey with Panoramic Roof (Mrs E's new baby)

GONE - RRS - 3.0 TDV6 HSE - Santorini (2010)
GONE - RRS - 2.7 TDV6 HSE - Java Black (2007)
GONE - Porsche Boxster S - 3.2 - Black

Always ask an expert

The only thing that would change that is if any part of the core becomes visible for any reason. TDV6 - gone
TDV8 - gone
Audi Q5 3.0 Tdi Sline wef 6/11/10

Good to know that having spent over £40k on a car people are still prepared to wring the last fraction of a mm out of their tyres  Two lives - lived one

This season, oi be mostly toasting my left leg in the 90 while the missus drives the D3

PauloAmore wrote:

Gents,

These are my front wheel Continentals. Note that sides of each tyre and scrubbed right down to zero tread.
- My gut tells me I still have 75% above 1.6mm and that the tyres are therefore legal.

That said, safety and my heart tells me to get some new boots.

Also, at what depth are the tread wear indicators on these tyres set at? Legal minimum?

Thoughts?




Thanks in advance.
Paul

mine are identical and perfectly legal. I suspect like me you drive the car quite enthusiastically, with the gear stick 'to the left' to firm up the suspension and heighten the gear change point? Well throwing a 3 tonne machine into corners like that (I drove a Lotus Exige previously ) does this to low profile tyres! still a fair amount of wear in them, and fairly safe (relative to how crap they are from new) - if you want grippy tyres then take a Lotus for a spin with Yokohama A048 semi slicks (in the dry).. quite frankly insane levels of grip.. hmmmm.. starting to miss it

I have just fitted some Yokohama advan st this week and they feel great I had the stock wrangles F1's which where good for 43000 kmbut at over $600 each thought I should try something else. Thus far happy but still to early to tell RRS TDV8 Buckingham Blue

NoDo$h wrote:

Good to know that having spent over £40k on a car people are still prepared to wring the last fraction of a mm out of their tyres

Endjin wrote:

Hi Paulo,

These look just like mine did and I thought exactly the same as you but was told by Kinghorn Body Shop (LR official repairer) that they are Illegal as the law states you must have 75% of tyre with legal tread depth and the rest must have "visible" tread. I'd change them now mate - Don't give your insurance company the chance not to pay out if you have a prang!

Hope this helps.

PauloAmore wrote:

Gents,

These are my front wheel Continentals. Note that sides of each tyre and scrubbed right down to zero tread.
- My gut tells me I still have 75% above 1.6mm and that the tyres are therefore legal.

That said, safety and my heart tells me to get some new boots.

Also, at what depth are the tread wear indicators on these tyres set at? Legal minimum?

Thoughts?




Thanks in advance.
Paul

NoDo$h wrote:

Cooper Zeon?

http://www.disco3.co.uk/forum/topic32452.html?highlight=zeon

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fred looney wrote:

I have just fitted some Yokohama advan st this week and they feel great I had the stock wrangles F1's which where good for 43000 kmbut at over $600 each thought I should try something else. Thus far happy but still to early to tell

Coko wrote:

Mate, would these tires fitted on 20" rims be compatible the RRS?

In the US (not sure about the UK), there are two sizes of 20" Cooper Zeon LTZ that will fit the RRS: 275/45/20s will go on without issues since they are only marginally larger than the stock tires, so accurate speedo, MPG calculations, etc. 285/50/20s are definitely larger than the stockers and - according to at least one forum member who has them over on rr.net - you may want to install 5mm wheel spacers on the front wheels to minimize chances of the inner sidewall rubbing against the upper control arm. The extra sidewall of the larger tires is a great advantage when off-roading (it also increases your ground clearance a bit), but the smaller size would probably handle better on the road as an "everyday" tire that only sees occasional off-road use. I am on my second set of these Coopers (sized 285/60/1 and love them, haven't put my "street" 21" bling wheels on in ages.  

Umberto, thanks for the explanation.
Can you please tell me where can I get the spacers? The only ones I have seen were 25mm per wheel, which I recon is bit too much...

Gents,

Fifth Gear (TV show) ran a programme last year on tyre wear. Basically, they concluded that wet stopping distances increased significantly when the tyre treads fell below 3mm (as opposed to waiting until 1.6mm).

So, on the basis of that test, I change my tyres out a bit early.

I had noticed that the pictured Conti's were aquaplaning at unexpected times. Quick but not fast speed through reasonablty sized puddles....

So, anyway's, I'm happy that I changed out legal scrubbed tyres for new ones.

Thanks for your advice guys
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