Big.Mike
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Yes, heat will make them reshape, gently warm them making sure not to focus on one spot... ABS ( which is what mine are made from) has a bit of a memory so it should reform.
cheers,
mike
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It just looks wrong!
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I'm curious how they make the tyre pliable enough to distort over rocks, yet corner properly without deforming.
Would it also distort or wrap up under hard acceleration from standstill? - bad description but the pic demonstrates what I mean
My guess would be that it acts like a spoked wheel, the hub is hanging rather than being pushed up from below. because the combs are under tension this tearing is unlikely to happen.
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Wouldn't do much for the unsprung weight, might be moot with a beam axle but to be commercially viable it would need a wider application market.
magnetorheological fluid is a bit heavier than you'd think!
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The 'tyre' would be MUCH thicker than existing tyres, but with a hollow core say 2" round, which would allow you to adjust the amount of flex in it.
Not unpuncturable, but pretty close if the 'rubber'(it wouldn't have to be rubber) is 3"+ thick.
I think the whole concept of tyres need throwing out of the window and starting again, blank sheet.
Trouble is liability, we've had technology for self driving cars for a couple of years now, they won't allow any changes to the norm as the first accident would be blamed on the new tech.
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I see no reason why we need a bladder of air at all, I do believe though that there must be a better solution than that
For example, the magnetorheological fluid from expensive damper technology could be used to 'inflate' or 'deflate' a tyre by turning on or off an electrical current inside an otherwise flexible rubber tyre, when the current is on, the tyre is 'hard', off it is flexible
Hmm, may go patent that
Magnetorheological fluid is horrendous stuff, got some on my shirt once and it wouldn't come off for ages, then went through an airport scanner in that shirt and it went nuts.
It took me ages to 1. think why it was going nuts and 2. tell them why my shirt was slightly magnetic.
I wouldn't want to fill a tyre with it!
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My take in these is that tyres, as they stand, are simply the most vulnerable part of any vehicle.
Anything that moves us away from a bladder of air has got to be of interest.
Also this is a first off of the technology, I can see that once this is adopted by the general populous all sorts of modifications would be possible to improve it.
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hmmm think i may have over-engineered my hinge pin abit
my engineering skills were taught the old school was non of this flimsy modern carp
"Looks" about right, considering you've only got one pivot point and it's supported well below the centre of gravity!
These things always look bigger on the desk than they do installed!
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stolen from another forum
take the pink bits off and give it some proper wheels and tyres, it may look reasonable.....
Nothing say manly man like pink suspension turrets...
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Perhaps buy older.
For 10k you could buy a 300tdi and have anything you'd care to mention changed...
I'd also say you might be looking in the wrong place, eBay is expensive (generally) and Autotrader seems like it's only trade now.
Ta,
Mike
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Can someone explain how a chassis and axles are tax and MOT exempt not excempt LOL
yeah, but what is it?
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After seeing this image on the BBC website, I wonder, how many lives have been saved by Land Rover over the years?
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£25m would go almost nowhere in setting up a new car manufacturing company. You'll be lucky if you only burn half that in wages in the first year.
Put a zero on the end and you might be getting somewhere close.
Erm, two zeros at least, they spend £billions on "Platforms" now, which is why the new Defender will have to be:
1. Built on the current Discovery/RR platform.
2. Built on a Tata platform. (Tata Safari anyone?)
3. Built on a 3rd party platform (really unlikely)
4. Built on the current Chassis in a far off land where passing you driving test means driving forwards 100 metres and backwards 100 meters and never ever sold to the likes of you and me.
If you want a "new" Defender as we know it after 2015 it'll have to be an Ibex, which wouldn't actually be that bad a world:
I like this BTW thanks Plumber:
Cheers,
Mike
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Cheers Mike - that's my best bet at the mo I guess
Plans like this will have commercial value, so they are going to be unobtainable, Exmoor trim certainly aren't going to offer them around!
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If you can't find anything (I suspect you won't be able to) then I've used cardboard to make up a template then trim round that...
Not ideal and a lot of work. Sorry.
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Cos it looks like a space ship!
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Thin them down with a sander?
I like this.
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How much ?
the red seats make it worth every penny! lol
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Not so much a pass the bucket ... but it has one on the back ..... can't imagine this will help the chassis last much longer.
Must have really light steering, the centre of gravity of the bucket is way beyond the back wheels!
Oh and £13K?
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So imagine for a minute this wasn't just a set up just to get lots of views/comments on youtube/facebook.How would a new Defender with traction control fare against a 4WD Dodge with open diffs and no traction control?
impossible to say, it depends on to much
I'd rather see a disco v defender
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On a Defender the front inner wings have no structural function at all, and on post 2009 vehicles are moulded plastic anyway.
Now that's what I thought... got distracted looking for them so forgot to mention.
GRP is a lot less forgiving than the plastic that LR will make them from.
More info here:
http://forums.lr4x4.com/index.php?showtopic=59192
Cheers,
Mike
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