UTV vs Limited use 4x4

[Hurdle bunter]

Stupidly wide sounds good

@General-Lee

 

[roscoe erf]

or go narrow with the tyres got some dumper tyres on mine 600x 16 hardly leaves a mark and its wet here

 

[GTB]

You can go up to 33x12.50/15 on a defender. Ours are 31x10.50/15 though.

 

[Spartacus]

Neighbour made this, I'm going to copy it!

Looks good but why did he take the doors off?

 

[roscoe erf]

Looks good but why did he take the doors off?

are they not extras/optional on utv or could be to save weight

 

[General-Lee]

@General-Lee

Wish I had photos of our old buggy we had when I 1st started purpose built as atv's and utv's couldn't cope. Had the same wheels as we're running now but narrow in between the vehicle looked a lot like a gator and was similar size but with a tractor style bonnet had a 2.8 diahatsu engine ran for 10 plus years and was great small lightish and nimble, but got pretty ropey come the end.

Now running a 90 with wide wheels but still mot'd etc come spring/summer normal wheels go on.

 

[D C]

I have a 4x4 suzuki carry pickup, travels very well and has a good heater. Alot better on the road than a utv aswell, will do 110kph!

 

[Spartacus]

are they not extras/optional on utv or could be to save weight

Yes they are optional extras but I assume it had them on at some point and it'd definitely be warmer with them in at the moment! But yes, it might be to save some weight

 

[scrubbuster]

Fancy a Pajero/Shogun swb

 

[GTB]

Yes they are optional extras but I assume it had them on at some point and it'd definitely be warmer with them in at the moment! But yes, it might be to save some weight

If it's so wet that the weight of the doors make that much difference you'd be better off using the quad.

 

[roscoe erf]

If it's so wet that the weight of the doors make that much difference you'd be better off using the quad.

its about your footprint the lighter the better should think no doors no rear seats windows etc you could save quite a bit of weight won't be far off a utv then

 

[Keepers]

Fancy a Pajero/Shogun swb

I previously had a SWB paj, 23 years old, was a fantastic offroader, had front, rear and centre diffs on it, I sold it to a farmer to do trailer hauling in and out fields in the winter, he had a fleet of landrovers.... I had 31" malatesta kaimans on it
I now have a shoggie swb, its 12 years old so pretty new , its a bit of a beast, I have 33" tyres on it, they are about a foot wide, they do stick out of the sides of the truck a bit making it just over 2ms wide...

It is a heavy truck but is superb in the winter, at the moment it pulls the izusu and landrovers out of the fields as they are wet clay and anything without rear and front diffs is getting wodged down, doesnt leave too much of a mark as it doesnt really spin and has wide tyres

This is my old one, was fantastic but could no longer afford to run it, did around 12mpg its still a field car though and is going strong pulling stuff in the winter, sorry if the photos are big...

 

[Keepers]

I also had a lwb version of the above, same age, I sold it to a farm down in trowbridge who are busy converting it into to a tray back for farm work, its getting a lift and 33"s and everything, should look good when its done

 

[roscoe erf]

well we've got it all wrong what we need for tending the livestock is a Bentley continental

 

[George from SJM Planning]

My Mk2 Ford Ranger with 255/65/16 Malatesta Kobra NT Mud Terrain 109Q from 4x4tyres.co.uk is very good on our very wet ground and leaves very little mark on the ground.

 

[BorderGrain]

Wish I had photos of our old buggy we had when I 1st started purpose built as atv's and utv's couldn't cope. Had the same wheels as we're running now but narrow in between the vehicle looked a lot like a gator and was similar size but with a tractor style bonnet had a 2.8 diahatsu engine ran for 10 plus years and was great small lightish and nimble, but got pretty ropey come the end.

Now running a 90 with wide wheels but still mot'd etc come spring/summer normal wheels go on.

What size are these tyres?

 

[General-Lee]

What size are these tyres?

Top of my head 31x15.5-15

 

[Downton_shep]

Buy a decent jacket and just use your quad. Mile and a half is nothing.
Sorry km and a half is even less!

 

[scottish-lleyn]

Look up KAP landmaster. They look the business

 

[bovrill]

These 31 15.5 15 tyres are the same as on the old MF air drills. I've got a feeling that the centre's are the same as the Landrover too.
Floats like a butterfly on them!