Wheel enquiry

[landyfromanuthaland]

For periods of extended blipping up and down sealed roads and the ability to scrub bash and carry on, what gains are there from going to 15inch sunraysia rim with a decent tyre from the standard 16 in pizza cutters, are the later wheel centres still rivetted upto the 3, I seen a nasty accident involving an ex army series 2 where the rivetts had rusted and they let go causing the rim to and centre to go there seperate ways and causing the old Landy to bury its nose and flip causing considerable damage to its non seat belt wearing occupant, I guess the rims can be stitched up with a welder, bringing economics and tyre avaliability and range into play whats the best move?

Will Disco steelies fit? same stud pattern?:confused:

[Blknight.aus]

For periods of extended blipping up and down sealed roads and the ability to scrub bash and carry on, what gains are there from going to 15inch sunraysia rim with a decent tyre from the standard 16 in pizza cutters, are the later wheel centres still rivetted upto the 3, I seen a nasty accident involving an ex army series 2 where the rivetts had rusted and they let go causing the rim to and centre to go there seperate ways and causing the old Landy to bury its nose and flip causing considerable damage to its non seat belt wearing occupant, I guess the rims can be stitched up with a welder, bringing economics and tyre avaliability and range into play whats the best move?

Will Disco steelies fit? same stud pattern?:confused:

switch over to series III rims which are solid construction and the same as county/defender/perentine.

[roverfj1200]

I found that the larger tires improved (on road)handling on my S3.

Could be going to radials from rags.. Fuel usage to increased a bit...:D

[LandyAndy]

The ride is a bit better with 15" radials,compared to 7.50x16 rags,plus they handle better.
Disco steelies are good,but not quite up to the weight loading of a 109",88" are fine.
Andrew

[numpty]

The ride is a bit better with 15" radials,compared to 7.50x16 rags,plus they handle better.
Disco steelies are good,but not quite up to the weight loading of a 109",88" are fine.
Andrew

That's interesting, we run a set of Disco steels on our Defender for trips out in the wilds, and just by looking at the build of them, they would seem to me to be a fair bit stronger than Series rims.

And for interest sake, we never ran anything but 750/16's on our old Stage 1, and she took us all over the place without any worries, including Simpson, Cape York and Fraser Island. Wide tyres, to me, seem to tramline on any imperfections on a roads surface.

[JDNSW]

The big difference will be going from crossply to radials. And remember when thinking about wider tyres that very few Series Landrovers have power steering.

John