Mud pattern tyre shortage - 16'' rims

[The Lovely Boyo]

Hello

Two years ago it was almost impossible to get 33x12.5'' tyres for 15'' rims, unless you paid top dollar.

So I bought a set for 16'' rims - ahhh, foolish me. Now that I need to replace them - yup you've guessed it - the same tyre in a nice mud pattern cannot be found. But there's lots available for 15'' rims, oh yes.

I have chance of some 750x16 (ex Military I think) but cannot find any info on tyre dimensions.

Help with finding 33'' muds for 16'' rims greatly appreciated - I'm getting fed up of looking.

[BUSHWHACKER]

http://www.devon4x4.com/component/op...4/showicons,no

http://www.tyremonkey.co.uk/tyres/4x...res/index.html

[MudSurfer]

Hello

Two years ago it was almost impossible to get 33x12.5'' tyres for 15'' rims, unless you paid top dollar.

So I bought a set for 16'' rims - ahhh, foolish me. Now that I need to replace them - yup you've guessed it - the same tyre in a nice mud pattern cannot be found. But there's lots available for 15'' rims, oh yes.

I have chance of some 750x16 (ex Military I think) but cannot find any info on tyre dimensions.

Help with finding 33'' muds for 16'' rims greatly appreciated - I'm getting fed up of looking.

I'm hoping to get a set of Paj wheels soon - 15 x 8 6 studs, to sit some 33" MTs on......now there's lovely!

[The Lovely Boyo]

http://www.devon4x4.com/component/op...4/showicons,no

http://www.tyremonkey.co.uk/tyres/4x...res/index.html

Hi Vince,

Tyre monkey - been there earlier - gives a great list of out of stock products lol

Devon4x4 won't open - I'll try again later - thanks

[joker??]

got these for the 3rd gen andy
mine are 265 75 16 though
http://www.paddockspares.com/pp/SHOP...Tyre_Only.html

[The Lovely Boyo]

got these for the 3rd gen andy
mine are 265 75 16 though
http://www.paddockspares.com/pp/SHOP...Tyre_Only.html

Thanks Dave - that tyre is only 10.5'' wide - I was loking for 12.5's.

Paddock have that 750 x 16 size available though - does anyone know how wide and what diameter this size tyre is??????

http://www.paddockspares.com/pp/WHEE...Tyre_Only.html

[KERRSURF]

My 33/12.5x15 and 15x10 rims from Silverline4x4.

[KERRSURF]

They carry 16" stock too.

[yoshie]

Kumho and BFG in 16" Here

33" 12.2" wide

[The Lovely Boyo]

Kumho and BFG in 16" Here

33" 12.2" wide

I had been onto Camskill - but missed that one - I'll call them in the morning.

Silverline are not showing all of their stock online for some reason.

Thanks for the pointers guys

[sledge]

this guy is pretty good http://stores.ebay.co.uk/JCS-4x4-Wheels-and-Tyres

[nero279]

what i can work out about 750x16 is they can also be written as 7.50R16 and they way it's written denotes whether it's radial or crossply construction, the R in the 2nd example denoting radial, not sure if the decimal point is of any significance.

But seemingly they would be the equivalent of a 31x7.50x16 which sounds very tall and skinny, almost too skinny but all i can work out from what i read while the site was down points to that being right.

750 or 7.50 indicates a tyre width of 7.5", and the fact that no aspect ratio is specified means that the ratio is assumed to be 100% or 1:1 so therefore the sidewall height is also 7.5"

: so the overall height is 16" (wheel) + (2 x 7.5"(sidewalls top and bottom)) = 31"
and the tyre width is 7.5"

Reading a little more some sites were suggesting that legally the widest rim a 750x16 tyre should be fitted to is 6.5", although some manufacturers are specifying the widest rim for their particular tyres as 7".

Either way, sounds like a very skinny tyre, and as much as i believe skinny tyres may well perform better offroad in a lot of circumstances, that's taking the pee a touch, and it's nowhere near a 33x12.50 anyway.

[BioHazard]

if you can wait for tony's bbq go here .....
http://www.micheldever.co.uk/

5 X 31x10.5x15 bfg at's fitted and balanced was £430 last year

[RodLeach]

305/75/16 is the proper 33x12.50. Or just over 33" actually but only by like 0.1" !! you can get 285/75/16 which is 33x11.50

from what ive read you wern't happy about having 12.50's on a 7" rim. the 285/75 might be a neat compromise.

[The Lovely Boyo]

305/75/16 is the proper 33x12.50. Or just over 33" actually but only by like 0.1" !! you can get 285/75/16 which is 33x11.50

from what ive read you wern't happy about having 12.50's on a 7" rim. the 285/75 might be a neat compromise.

Christ, you've been doing your research. But yeah, after I had them delivered I was told by numerous peeps that they should have gone onto 8'' or preferably 10'' wide rims.

So a 11.5'' tyre might be better for my rims.

Having said that, I have never had any problems and they have seen some action over the past couple of years.