LR3 18"Tire/Wheel combo~~ Advice?
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RE: LR3 18"Tire/Wheel combo~~ Advice? - 2/6/2007 2:18:54 PM
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Jantiz
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By the way, how does everyone feel about going 16" on the LR3? Has anyone out there done it? Not sure about the looks but the better tread selection and the smoother ride interests me. Would changing wheel/tires cancel my warranty? What size 16" tire would give me the same circunference as the factory 19" ? Bottom line is I need a little better traction, smoother ride would be awesome but looks are still important in a 57k SUV!
So 16" or 18" and why? Thanks in advance.
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. At any rate, I'm a military guy. Two Iraq tours (hoping there wont be a third anytime soon!). It would seem that I find myself going on my privately owned vehicle to a lot of places where the military hummers go. Wether to recon the site prior to convoy or, to tell the truth, just for fun, because I can 
. There are some seriously nasty trails on military bases used for off-road training among other things and I found myself doing some diggin and some pushin to get my LR3 unstuck on a particularly nasty trail in a base here in California recently. It looked to be dry and solid until we started up hill and realized that under the thin dry cap there was some thick, slippery clay. Once my factory 255/55 19's shallow treads filled up with the clay we might as well had been on ice. The LR3 slid sideways into a very soft drain ditch on the trail side and the rest is history 
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