Thread: 02 Fender Wheel Offsets Problems

Pete,
The shape of the D1 wheel restricts how far you can move the centre in (without 'flipping' the rim 180*). If you look on the inside of a D1 wheel, you will see that if you move the centre back more than about 30mm (after cutting 10mm off the back of the centre) you will run out of anything to weld to.
25 - 30mm is what we move the centre of a D1 wheel to run 255's on a County/Defender. You should be able to run 235's on the standard D1 rims.
A lot of guys flip the centres of D1 rims to fit big rubber to Rangies, but I don't know what off set this gives.

Cheers, Murray

Will D1 wheels fit an 02 fender?
When did the wheels change?

Originally Posted by kaa45

Will D1 wheels fit an 02 fender?
When did the wheels change?

D1 steel wheels will fit any Defender up to the current model.

Originally Posted by rijidij

Pete,
The shape of the D1 wheel restricts how far you can move the centre in (without 'flipping' the rim 180*). If you look on the inside of a D1 wheel, you will see that if you move the centre back more than about 30mm (after cutting 10mm off the back of the centre) you will run out of anything to weld to.
25 - 30mm is what we move the centre of a D1 wheel to run 255's on a County/Defender. You should be able to run 235's on the standard D1 rims.
A lot of guys flip the centres of D1 rims to fit big rubber to Rangies, but I don't know what off set this gives.

Cheers, Murray

Are you serious? I can only assume this is for competition vehicles. No one with half a brain would cut the centre out of a rim, re-weld it back and use it on the highway. Same goes for flipping the rims round.

D1 steel rims will fit on all defenders.


Save a few lives and buy a set off offset rims.

Jon

Jon

It is done regularly and legitimately here in Victoria by a wheel enginering company called Eastern wheel works.

They do flip the rims so the safety bead is on the outside .

Not sure why you are of the opinion that it is such a crazy idea and lives are at risk.

A standard reworked offset is 35mm ( I think ) ending up with a wider track of 70mm to make the car more stable with wider stance if you like, in fact making it safer

Originally Posted by Yorkshire_Jon

Are you serious? I can only assume this is for competition vehicles. No one with half a brain would cut the centre out of a rim, re-weld it back and use it on the highway. Same goes for flipping the rims round.

D1 steel rims will fit on all defenders.


Save a few lives and buy a set off offset rims.

Jon

Yes we are serious. They do weld to put the center in the wheel in the first place.

D1 wheels fit the the defender wheel stud pattern. However the reason why people go for the D1 wheel is so they can put a wider tyre on. The earlier Defenders have a wider setting on the rear springs which causes a rub point when using bigger tyres when the vehicle is at maximum articulation. I am not sure but I think that once they started pimping the defenders with the disco mags they moved the springs in a bit.

Originally Posted by Yorkshire_Jon

Are you serious? I can only assume this is for competition vehicles. No one with half a brain would cut the centre out of a rim, re-weld it back and use it on the highway. Same goes for flipping the rims round.

D1 steel rims will fit on all defenders.


Save a few lives and buy a set off offset rims.

Jon

When Eastern Wheel Works, or Ajax do the mods, the centres are fully welded in, unlike the few short welds that they have from the factory, so they are actually stronger after you get them modified.
This is a VERY common mod for fitting the D1 wheels to Countys/Defenders and I've never heard of any problems with the mod.

If it's done properly, what's the problem with modifying wheels, afterall, we cut/modify/weld just about every other part of our vehicles.

Oh, and I'm pretty sure all of my brain is still in my head.

So Murray.

Enlighten me please.

1. If I still want to run 235 85's but in a mud pattern , on a spare set of rims , is there [I]any [I] advantage at all in having a bigger offset or as I said above a 70-100mm wider track? More stable an less likely to roll over?
2. If comparing 130 rims ( that look like Wolf rims but are tubed ) or true Wolf (tubeless) rims , do these 2 have different offsets.

Pete