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sevenedz

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Gave the old girl a polish today after fitting her with new shoes.
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Oponeo I think that's how its spelt £850 for 5 285 75 16 Took a week for delivery but with all that's going on not too bad.
 
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Good price on the tyres, incidentally, how much did it cost you to have the tyres mounted and balanced?
 
Good price on the tyres, incidentally, how much did it cost you to have the tyres mounted and balanced?
Struggling to get them balanced as everywhere I go they say the hubs are too large for their machines. Last place said not to bother I would be wasting my time as they're so large the tyres. I had my wheels refurbished they mounted the tyres.
 
Mmmn, you're not on your own with the balancing problem. every time I have BFG's mounted on wheels the local tyre place has a job on. Sometimes they re mount the tyre 180 degrees on the rim and they always come back with a ton of weights on. That said, I recently had a set of Cooper S/T Maxx's re mounted on some repainted rims and they came beck with virtually nothing on on comparison to the BFG's.

The reason I asked is I wondered the total cost of the BFG's fitted compared with a supply and fit price.
 
My local HGV Garage got me 5 285/75/16 BFG AT cost was 920 fitted and balanced, I always try and buy local if I can
 
Some people have used dyna beads and say bit wobbly up to 20mph but after that no problems maybe some users might be able to give more information with their experience of dyna beads
 
Some people have used dyna beads and say bit wobbly up to 20mph but after that no problems maybe some users might be able to give more information with their experience of dyna beads
Dyna beads were brilliant when I used them on an Toyo MR2 and had that going hell for leather round Nurburgring but they didnt work when I tried them on my Mitsi Shogun. I've always had balancing issues on knobbly tyres and to TBH the beads are not cheap and you'll need about 6oz per tyre due to the size. Problem is if they don't work you'll still have to get the wheels balanced at a fitters. I'd say yes for a regular road tyre but not for AT or MT but JMO.
 
Installed intercooler today. Not all back together as yet painting grill and all the chrome around the lights. Going to take it to a local diesel specialist to setup fueling. Not test driven as not all back together.
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De chromed the front end had it apart for the intercooler install so thought I'd tidy it up a little took all week with primer gloss black spray and then a clear coat applied. Also took her for a little drive fuel not been setup for cooler yet but its definitely a nicer drive already.
 
Do like the black front end, how much of a headache was removing the chrome and sanding painting it?
 
Do like the black front end, how much of a headache was removing the chrome and sanding painting it?
Would have been a lot easier had some of the screws not rusted in. Didn't want to spray anything on to loosen them as I was about to paint so took a bit more prep time when painting. It is possible to unscrew all surrounds on the lights. Didn't remove all chrome i just sanded to roughen up for the primer. Following the instructions on the spray paint had to wait 24 hours to harden between different coatings so took me 4 days.
 
Got it back from the bodyshop had the rust around the windscreen sorted with a new Oem windscreen and rubber surround fitted. Also a hole in the passenger side rear sill repaired.
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Had the hole roof done in gloss black including the windscreen pillars.
 
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