Skinny Tyres for early BX14s (145r14)

[jamescarruthers]

I was shocked at the prices for these tyres which seem to fit early BX14s and Morris Minors.

The size is 145r14, which translates into 145/80r14 on a modern tyre. You can put wider tyres on the original rims but reading Morris Minor owners experience of this put me off. There is too much flex in the sidewall which makes them squirmy under hard cornering. Also, if there is too much flex, that means that they could overheat at speed and explode. All of which put me off!

I just thought I'd post this up to save anyone else the time I've spent shopping around.

Camac tyres are available in summer tyres only. Bridgestone tyres are available in summer and winter tyres.

Tyre Shopper seem to be the cheapest for fitted Bridgestone tyres. They seem to be an online version of National Tyres and I've ordered some summer tyres for £65/tyre, fitted. Winters were just over £50/tyre, fitted (I wanted winter tyres but they weren't available for 10 days which would make my trip to Newcastle on bald 30 year old tyres rather hairy!).


Camac tyres were around the same price but weren't fitted.

I'm sure tyre conversations have been done to death on here but for the few of us with early BX14s there is very little choice with the correct sized tyre nowadays.

If you have a Morris Minor specialist near you, you might be able to get a better deal from them if they have some older stock.

[citsncycles]

What width are your rims? I suspect that they're wider than the Morris Minor rims, in which case 155s would probably be OK. Having said that, I'd always try to keep to the original size if I could afford to.

[citronut]

here are the size's shown on service citroen for

has anyone ever seen a 1.124L?????

PETROL AND 1 124L AND 01 AND (GR) AND 1 360L

95 495 481
NFP
STEEL WHEEL
4 50X14 FH 4 30 A

4 50X14 FH 4 30 A
- LEADER UNTIL RPO 03688

4 50X14 FH 4 30 A
- 14 TE

5401 63
NFP
5 00J14FH4,25
- 14 TGE


regards malcolm

[Stinkwheel]

4.5 " wheel rim on a BX 14 and a standard minor rim is 3.5"

Most important thing when deciding what size tyres you want to use is 'rolling radius' and a 155/70-14 will have almost exactly the same rolling radius as a 145/80-14

and 155/70-14's are a common size and can be had for decent prices.

Hope thats of some use to someone

[Stinkwheel]

http://www.mytyres.co.uk/cgi-bin/rshop. ... 7376731554" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

as an example (sorry about the huge link)

[MULLEY]

I'm with stinkwheel's suggestion, you probably won't notice any difference except more grip tbh

[Tim Leech]

I've got 155/14 on my minor. They're quite cheap.