Good Morning,

I'm going to be replacing the tires on my '83 240D soon and would like the group's comments on the following:
Sam's Club has the Dunlop SP40 in 195/70R14 for $40.77 a tire. Has anyone had experience with these tires? Am I being too cheap & should consider spending a little bit more for something vastly superior? Remember that it's a 240D, so we're not going to be dealing with a lot of 'performance driving'.

Thank you!

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Tripp Frasch
'83 240D (ours)
'88 300SEL (taking care of for now)
New Orleans, LA

vieux,

Didn't you car come with 75 or 80 series tires? You might want to go to a larger size 70 series tire so your odometer amd speedometer are accurate.

On my '80 300SD I went to 205-70 R14 size tires and the speedo and odo are more than 99% accurate.

Other than that the Dunlop tires should be fine.

P E H

I would recommend 205/75/R14. The 205 is a little wider and the 75 is a little taller. That fills the wheel wells better IMHO. I wouldn't worry too much about the speedo, especially with a 240.
As for the brand of tire, and this is just a product of my anality, but I go alot with how the tire looks. I know that might be an odd way to pick, but to me it makes a difference. Who wants a good tire that looks bad.

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Jimmy L.
'05 Acura TL 6MT
2001 ML430 My Spare

Gone:
'95 E300 188K "Batmobile" Texas Unfriendly Black
'85 300TD 235K "The Wagon" Texas Friendly White
'80 240D 154K "China" Scar engine installed
'81 300TD 240K "Smash"
'80 240D 230K "The Squash"
'81 240D 293K"Scar" Rear ended harder than Elton John

Dunlop makes some top quality tires, I would have no problem buying any Dunlop products.

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1999 SL500
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

I need some on my '81 240D as well. In checking Tirerack.com, they do not even carry the OEM size. They suggest a 205 70 14. That's odd, because they sold me 195's for my 300D. I bought the Kumho's. Basic tire but good reviews on tire rack. I am happy with them on the 300.
As for the Dunlop's, they have excellent winter tires. If you do a lot of winter driving that is both on snow/ice and can be highway miles on dry pavement, they make a great sport winter tire. I have sets for both my Acura and TDI.

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'85 300D - 206K (sold)
'81 240D - 149K (sold)
'03 Jetta TDI - (sold)
'79 300D - (sold)

Hockey, the problem is tire rack list it as 175/-14. I did a search for 175/70-14 and came up with 13 tire results. BTW, I think I'd still run 195/70-14s on that 81.

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85 300CD
83 300TD
78 240D (daughter)