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New 40 Series Pirelli tyres for VW (not) - OMG

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Camo Custom Title Time!

1,936 posts · joined Oct 2007 ·

#684240
Check out these tyres that arrived today whilst I was at the tyre shop. They are 315/40R-26. Yes, 26". The photo doesn't do them justice, they are F'n huge.

You can see the normal 15" tyres beside them as a comparison on the right and the 3 other 26" laying on their side to the left.




I thought rebuilding a VW would be cheap - Shit I was wrong, just don't let the wife know !!!!

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Pumba Veteran Volks Folk

2,138 posts · joined Jan 2007 ·

#684242
They would make a very nice tyre swan😂
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Notch Nut Custom Title Time!

1,011 posts · joined Apr 2006 ·

#684249
Custom Harley Choppers have been using tyres that size for yonks now!!🙄🙄😀😂
If you can't fix it with a hammer,
you have an electrical problem....

Camo Custom Title Time!

1,936 posts · joined Oct 2007 ·

#684274
Notch Nut wrote:Custom Harley Choppers have been using tyres that size for yonks now!!🙄🙄😀😂
Do you mean on motor bikes, as these are car tyres. I think they said about $600 a tyre, not to bad.
I thought rebuilding a VW would be cheap - Shit I was wrong, just don't let the wife know !!!!

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notch-72 Slammed & Awesome Dubber

83 posts · joined Jun 2008 ·

#684289
26 inch wheels are big but theres bigger.

thoes freakin yanks dont know when to stop heres a pic of a hummer with 30s on it !


Theres 42inch wheels out there now made by Lexani tyres arent even made for these wheels yet !

amazeer Bishop of Volkswagenism

3,029 posts · joined Nov 2005 ·

#684292
what sort of pressure would you have in those? With over 2 tonne rolling on them it wouldnt take too much of a bump to destroy a wheel

notch-72 Slammed & Awesome Dubber

83 posts · joined Jun 2008 ·

#684294
A half descent pot hole would destroy them.
Just found out Thoes 30's with tyres $17227.00 US !.......

whatnow Custom Title Time!

1,000 posts · joined Jan 2003 ·

#684308
with a rolling diameter of that size it would have to be a massive pot hole for the car to wheel to even dip into it.

eraser Fahrvergnugen

970 posts · joined Mar 2005 ·

#684321
mmmm just the other day the council up near my works decided to cut a 45 cm gap in the road to lay pipe and then fill it with sand and leave it over the weekend, on Monday i was driving and i see the ute go over this hole (where the sand used to be) would of been about 4-6cm deep and bang all 4 low profiles were wrecked. And a few seconds later another car had the same thing happen...

Joel Now containing 100\% E-Wang

9,368 posts · joined Feb 2006 ·

#684332
thos 26s would have an awefull ride
i had 18s with 35 series tyres on bug and laser for a while and u feel every little bump and divot in the road
often feels like driving along a corrigated iron roof
but then again thats par for the course with north coast roads

i hear ya eraser
gotta love dumbass council work sometimes
there big roadworks trucks drive fine over it so the publics cars will as well......🙄

ive got a set of 17" rims under the house that are nearly new and 2 are f**ked cos of dodgy roadworks

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notch-72 Slammed & Awesome Dubber

83 posts · joined Jun 2008 ·

#684338
ouch thats gota suck joel.
I heard a rumour that a mob in sydney indian something there got the matt black vans..I herd there got a golf with 24s,anyone else herd this?

ian.mezz I never said, I could write or spell

3,913 posts · joined Sep 2004 ·

#684341
I dont like em or the big mags ,the mags are to heavy its like they are made cheap🤪 And a lot of the young blokes get the mags and tyres on the interest free loan from bob jane etc and the tyres wear out before they can pay them off 🤪 then they dont have another $300 for a new tyre
😂🤪😂🤪😂
car forums. where a lot of peoples good intentions end up taking a good old car off the road forever never ever to see the road again. 🥲

eraser Fahrvergnugen

970 posts · joined Mar 2005 ·

#684441
On my celica (no not the VW) i have Bridgestone potenzas, so far without rotation i have got a good 20,000 on them and looks to get another 15 or there abouts.. Real nice set of tyres and hold the road well. (will put them on the VW when I'm ready)

On the orig 68 VW i was running firehawks they went 70,000 kms but i unfortunately couldn't buy them any more as they stopped making them in the size i wanted (225), i got some others in 225 (cant remember the name will advise) but they were like driving on toy car plastic wheels, often turn and vw would like to continue forwards.

STIDUB Over it.

1,497 posts · joined Jun 2008 ·

#684450
hummers, goes to show money doesnt buy taste / brains🤪
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STIDUB - yep its still a work in progress

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