Thread: Tuffant 18" Steel Wheels

Mine turned up yesterday and get dropped off at the tyre fitter today, what can I say these guys are professional in sending the rims out to you and follow up your purchase and so easy to deal with, looking forward to fitting them with the tyres...

I ordered my tyres through Tyresales online too, sick of the tyreshops telling me what tyre I need to fit and steeering me away from what I wanted because they need to get rid of their stock. i fell for that with a tyreshop once and was supposed to get a good set of A/T's fotr my Hilux and got Hankook tyres instead, they were better than the big horns but not what i wanted.

Cheers

Rusty

Finally got them fitted with KL61's and they really look a mean wheel/tyre, gotta wait for my blue slip on Tuesday (failed interstate rego due to a damaged tread tyre)

the wheels come with caps and lugnuts, I bought the tyres from tyresales.com.au and can't fault their service at all.

Now to get it on the road and do a little trail work too.

Originally Posted by discomatt69

I have just put a set on my new to me D4, fitted 265/65 BFG KO2's. First trip was a run to SA for some beach and sand dune playing with the 4x4 Earth SA annual gathering.
Balanced up well with not to much lead needed, speedo is now perfect compared to the GPS, TC worked fine, well once the D4 novice worked out all the electrickery, had pressures down to 12 PSI on the really soft sections and they look a heap better than I first thought they would.
Next run is up north to Kimberly and Kakadu in 6 weeks which will really test them

Did you have to do much in the way of mods to the wheel arch etc to prevent rubbing with this size tyre?

Originally Posted by DrOsteo

Did you have to do much in the way of mods to the wheel arch etc to prevent rubbing with this size tyre?

I didn't do any mods at all, on full compression the rear does slightly rub on the plastic splash shield but only just and no metal contact o cut the tyres.
I haven't seen any rubbing on the front at full lock or suspension compression.
Speedo is now spot on according to my Hema GPS

had Bob Jane in Adelaide attempt to fit tuffant 18s to my D4 today. rang me and said they wont fit, rubbing on brake calipers. i didn't have time to go back and see if they were talking close or actually rubbing so ended up picking car up with no new rims/tyres fitted.
edit - just talked with Bob Janes and they absolutely confirm the rims are rubbing and they wont/cant fit them. i'm confused ??????

Originally Posted by Outback Jack

had Bob Jane in Adelaide attempt to fit tuffant 18s to my D4 today. rang me and said they wont fit, rubbing on brake calipers. i didn't have time to go back and see if they were talking close or actually rubbing so ended up picking car up with no new rims/tyres fitted.
edit - just talked with Bob Janes and they absolutely confirm the rims are rubbing and they wont/cant fit them. i'm confused ??????

Hi Jack, Should be no issue on that car. Could be one of 2 issues we have seen thus far.

1. The car has non-standard calipers fitted (we have had this in one case)
2. The tyre fitter didn't release the handbrake on the car and was put of by how close the wheel was (also had this in one case)

Have sent you a message from TuffAnt so we can get it sorted for you

cheers
Andrew

Originally Posted by apom

Hi Jack, Should be no issue on that car. Could be one of 2 issues we have seen thus far.

1. The car has non-standard calipers fitted (we have had this in one case)
2. The tyre fitter didn't release the handbrake on the car and was put of by how close the wheel was (also had this in one case)

Have sent you a message from TuffAnt so we can get it sorted for you

cheers
Andrew

You’ll find on tight tolerance wheels if the Muppet at the shop tries to put it on “not square” they often hit the calliper.

Andrew from Tuffant rang me direct to help sort the issue. Very happy that he has taken the time to get involved. now that is someone willing to stand behind their product.