Boro Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 Could someone please advise on what pressures i should be running in the tyres for road use on a 1995 3 door 300 tdi manual, tyres are stock 205 16 and i tend to carry maybe up to 100kg in the back, cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dooroy Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 Could someone please advise on what pressures i should be running in the tyres for road use on a 1995 3 door 300 tdi manual, tyres are stock 205 16 and i tend to carry maybe up to 100kg in the back, cheers Cold tyres , normal on and off road use Front : 28lbs ( 1.9 bar ) Rear : 38 lbs ( 2.6 bar ). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fern Posted August 21, 2008 Share Posted August 21, 2008 Cold tyres , normal on and off road use Front : 28lbs ( 1.9 bar ) Rear : 38 lbs ( 2.6 bar ). 2.6 is too much. Normally I always had 1.8-2.0 on both fronmt and rear. I have carried 600kg of weight at 2.2 (but that was not good). Now I have 2.4 on road for mud tires to last longer (0.8 - 1.0 in mud:) ). But that's too much for normal tyres. Just do 1.8 - 2.0 bars. 100kg of weight? Forget about it, you will not feel it, my LPG tank in the back weights more! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firemannotsam Posted August 21, 2008 Share Posted August 21, 2008 Says in my handbook 28(front) and 34(rear) for all loads/conditions on and off road. I tend to run my rears at 32 unloaded. 100KG is nothing I have had 400KG in the boot no problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocky Posted August 21, 2008 Share Posted August 21, 2008 Hi, my handbook states 205 R16 RADIAL, NORMAL-ALL LOAD CONDITIONS, FRONT--1.9 BAR, REAR 2.6 BAR. Hope this helps. Regards, Rocky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dooroy Posted August 22, 2008 Share Posted August 22, 2008 Those figures are from the Land Rover Workshop manual and I found in the past that running the rears at less than the recommended pressures soon resulted in signs of underinflation - the outsides of the tyre wearing faster than the centre section . I now have a D2 and the same thing has happened - a slow puncture resulted in one of the rear tyres running a bit low ( 30/32 psi or so) and the tyre soon showed the effects . The rears are supposed to be 38 psi . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Escape Posted August 24, 2008 Share Posted August 24, 2008 When I ran 205s on my 90, I kept them at 2.5bar front and rear, worked fine for me. Afterwards the 205s were used on 2 RRCs, both also pleased with running 2.5 bar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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