Ride quality with 20" wheels

(17-03-2014 11:09pm)XFullFatTim Wrote:  I ran my last Evoque on 20's in the summer and 19's with Ice and snow tyres in the winter. Even with Magneride I noticed a difference in ride comfort but there was a much more noticeable reduction in tyre noise between running 20" Continentals and 19" Pirelli's with the Pirelli's being very much quieter

It will be interesting to hear what you have to say about the road noise on the black pack 20" michelins compared to the old contis - If you ever get yours

Have had my RRE for 2 years now and have the style 6 20" for summer and some FL2 17's with winter tyres on for, well... Winter obviously!
Except for a teeny tiny bit more bounce in the colder months, if I were to do a blind drive not knowing which set were on it, I really couldn't tell the difference - except in cost to replace them of course! I drive on various different styles of roads from farm tracks in Yorkshire to the busy streets of our city. No major difference at all.
Obviously, all just a personal observation of course.

Thanks for the replys, I was planning on keeping the standard rims and putting winter tyres on them, love the look of the 20's but if the ride was really harsh would prob have gone for 19"

Evoque's standard suspension was originally designed to be able to ride and handle well on all the OEM wheels. LR never used to design their cars to handle wheels bigger than 19" and even wrote it in the owner's manual that fitting anything larger would invalidate drive train/ suspension component warraanty - they then found that people wanted to fit bigger wheels at the expense of offroad handling and regardless of the fact that warranties were invalidated so they engineered cars since 2008 to take 20" wheels as standard and now you can even spec up to 22" wheels with factory approval on your RRS2 and New FFRR - they have re-engineered steering and suspension systems to be able to handle the extra loadings these bigger wheels put on the systems. Interesting that Top Gear's FFRR TDv6 was specced with 22" optional extra wheels and they have found that it rides and handles way better on 19's and have changed to them permanently

I've recently tested a RR Sport on 22inch rims and the ride over bumps such as road repairs, etc seemed quite jarring; the ride on smooth tarmac was fine. I was quite interested in buying one until being told that the waiting list is close to one year, not acceptable in my book.

I find the ride on the firm side, but most noticeable is the road noise. Can get quite loud and boomy on certain surfaces at higher speeds. That said, I had the dealers Dynamic 5 door out for a while, that seemed quieter, not sure if it was the different body style or the different tyre brand they had on it ( mine are the Contis)

I have 3 sets, 19" conti's, 19" Pirelli's and 20" Conti's and I do notice the Conti's are a bit more Boomy, my replacement Summer tyre would definitely be the Pirelli's, if I ever need new tyres

Was in the LR dealer today and noticed they had a display stand for LR Approved Vredestien Winter Tyres.

I know we have no choice over the tyres that come with the car but my first evoque had 20 inch continentals and my current evoque came with 20 inch pirellis

For me there is a huge difference between these tyres on the evoque as I find both the road noise and ride comfort vastly better on the pirellis

I'm intending on changing to the pirellis as I drove an SD4 coupe with them on and found them much quieter and ever so slightly better riding than the contis. Plus the scorpion verdes have a rim protection ridge which the contis don't - important if the wife is going to drive it!

Anyone has any experience with the 20" Michelins? Ride quality and noise levels?