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My 285/75-16's were $300 a corner fitted & balanced with free rotation every 10,000k's and have since found that's not the best price you can get. Your quote of $275 ins't a bad price for 265's but I would've thought being a more common standard tire size, you'd be able to do better with some hunting around? Could be wrong.
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Scoey

long live 15inch rims!

my 33x12.5x15's cost $265 when I got em..

I like my 31's at $220.

Yep bigger diameter. The 265 is about a 31.5" and the 285 is aa tad under 33". The bigger tires seem to give more bite up rough/rutted hills and feel a bit more sure footed - whether that's thru increased footprint size or what I don't know.

Obviously the increased diameter affects gearing but in the 80 it's not really noticable - I thought I noticed it a bit when i first got them but that could've been more in my mind. The only other thing to watch is how it affects the speedo. The speedo now reads 3.7% slower than it did before (is that right?) Anyway I sit on about 96 (on the speedo) now instead of 100km/h and the trucks actually doing 100k's.

Did I answer your question? :-S

Cheers
Scoey

Scoey, I agree, I have 285 Coopers on my 92 mod 80 & it is more sure footed than before..
I am sitting on 100k's when my speedo says 93

Bradley i could be interested,how do i contact you ?????????

Hi Brian, email me - yarda(underscore)will(at)yahoo(dot)com(dot)au

just have to write it like that so the web crawlers dont pick it up and spam me :-)