Hi all. I've done some searches but not seen much pic evidence..
Times coming up for some new 17" tyres.
Fl2 is standard (ish)... No lift or anything anyway..
Been looking at options for 245 65 17... And 245 70 17. I believe both fit with no issue?

More for the looks and a bit of extra confidence should I ever take it ln the rough stuff a bit more. Not into serious greenlaning any more because my original freelander1 got far too expensive doing all that.

So what I'm after is... Pics of non lifted fl2s with either... Please... Slightly worried about the 70/17s looking too big without a lift...

Be careful will taller tyres, as the speedometer will read low, which is an offence. Mine with new standard 235/65/17 tyres the speedometer is basically spot on. 2009 Rimini Red SE TD4. My daily driver.
Gone. 2006 Tonga Green i6 HSE.

Have you checked that? A lot of my driving is cruise control motorway speed at the moment.
GPS 70mph... Is actually 73mph on the speedo(according to my phone, GPS dashcam and the Android headunit in car) using the standard 235s. 🤷🏻‍♂️

255/60r18 are about 2kph maybe a whisker more, under GPS figure. Procrastination, mankind's greatest labour saving device!

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I agree with the 2-3mph difference in recorded against GPS readings.
On my FL2 it seems to be a constant and not proportional to speed (as in the mechanical speedo days) and therefore I am not sure what a change of rolling diameter would give as an indication.

I was interested to read that there is a law specifying max and min readings for speedos although I cannot recall this ever being checked post-manufacture.

The law for car speedometers in the UK
The UK law is based on the EU standard, with some minor changes. A speedo must never show less than the actual speed, and must never show more than 110% of actual speed + 6.25mph.

So if your true speed is 40mph, your speedo could legally be reading up to 50.25mph but never less than 40mph. Or to put it another way, if your speedo is reading 50mph, you won’t be doing more than 50mph but it’s possible you might actually only be travelling at 40mph.

To ensure that they comply with the law and make sure that their speedometers are never showing less than true speed under any foreseeable circumstances, car manufacturers will normally deliberately calibrate their speedos to read ‘high’ by a certain amount. As your satnav is not the designated device by which a car’s speed is measured, it does not need to incorporate any fudge factoring.

https://www.thecarexpert.co.uk/how-accurat...n%2040mph. FL2 XS SD4 Auto 2010 2012-2017 (21k - 91k miles) (MY2011)
FL2 Metropolis SD4 Auto 2014 2017- (16k - 74k+ miles) (MY2015)

pippy0 wrote:

Have you checked that? A lot of my driving is cruise control motorway speed at the moment.
GPS 70mph... Is actually 73mph on the speedo(according to my phone, GPS dashcam and the Android headunit in car) using the standard 235s. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Do you realise that you can edit the tyre size in the CCF?

Now whether that has any effect on speedo reading I don’t know, but might be worth trying for someone who has that capability.

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As useful as all this is.. Anyone with the requested pics? 🤣