Thread: Wheel Offsets

With the 265 70`s never any issues and my car gets off road a fair bit. If the 265 75`s were new I think they would rub a lot more. I have entered the W4 Challenge in a few weeks (see up coming trips) so should see how the 75`s rub or not on extreme articulation. I run Arnott gen2`s and the ride heights are set a little higher than factory spec.

parasnoop67 is running 265 75 bighorns without to many issues, I would still be cautious if spending big $$ on new rubber, My last outlay was only $200 for a second hand set

Originally Posted by wayneg

With the 265 70`s never any issues and my car gets off road a fair bit. If the 265 75`s where new I think they would rub a lot more. I have entered the W4 Challenge in a few weeks (see up coming trips) so should see how the 75`s rub or not on extreme articulation. I run Arnott gen2`s and the ride heights are set a little higher than factory spec.

parasnoop67 is running 265 75 bighorns without to many issues, I would still be cautious if spending big $$ on new rubber, My last outlay was only $200 for a second hand set

All valuable advice cheers.

So going off 245/75/16 the diameter is marginally less than 265/70/16 so I shouldn't have any problems, but may rub slightly going off Keithy P38 experience. 265/75/16 will most likely scrub but how bad depends on the shape of the tyre I'm guessing. Yeh yeh I know they are all round but the tread design ha ha.

265/70/16 sounds tempting but its not a very common size so that limits tyre choice for me.

$200 for a set?? Wow thats sooo cheap. No way I'd spend over $1k if i found reasonable tyres anywhere near that price.

Originally Posted by Slunnie

For the rims, I would try to stick to LR alloys. They are an excellent and strong rim, but importantly they have really good bead retaining ring on the inside of them that stops the tyre from coming off the rim - makes like a bit more difficult for the tyre changers too, but they are some of the best at retaining tyres. Your options for these are 16x7, 16x8 and 18x8 in alloy and a handful of Disco2's came with steel 16x7's also. These are all the same +57 offset. The Disco2 and P38 rims are interchangable.

So do all the 16 inch LR alloys that suit a p38 have the bead retaining ring? As in the 16x7 and 16x8 rims that come standard with p38's and also the disco 2 16x7's?

Originally Posted by pbrown

So do all the 16 inch LR alloys that suit a p38 have the bead retaining ring? As in the 16x7 and 16x8 rims that come standard with p38's and also the disco 2 16x7's?

The alloys do and this also includes the Disco2 16x8s which you omitted.

I'm not sure about the steels as I've never eyeballed the bead retaining lip on them and I wouldn't take it for granted as they have a different manufacturing technique to the alloys.

All I can say is when I had my latest tyres fitted 2 weeks back the fitter was not happy once he saw the car and rims. He told how he had broken his machine getting the old tyres of the last time he had worked with Land Rover alloys. Needless to say there was lots of cursing and ear defending as the old tyres were reluctant to let go and the air pressure to get the new tyres over the rib to seal was excessive. All good in the end
Mine are d2 rims, not sure if they are 7 0r 8 inch, they were the cheapest I could find at the time

Originally Posted by Keithy P38

You could put one front wheel on a hoist pad and raise the hoist! Saves putting k's on a new tyre!

Mine only rubs under full articulation and it's not noticeable in car, only afterwards when I inspect the arches, however I can drive and turn lock to lock no worries in access height.

That method wont give you the full range of suspension movement like getting out and driving it will. You can load the suspension to it limits when driving it, and you will also get the deflection in the bushes which the hoist wont give.

So do all the 16 inch LR alloys that suit a p38 have the bead retaining ring? As in the 16x7 and 16x8 rims that come standard with p38's and also the disco 2 16x7's?

The 16x8 certainly have the bead retainer, makes tyre changing a bit harder but you can run low pressure without problems.
I have a set of 245/75 Wrangler mtr's and a set of 265/75 Bighorns, on 2 sets of rims.When I fitted the Bighorns I removed the front mudflaps but at this stage I have standard bumpstops. At highway height the Bighorns touched the mudflaps enough to make me take them off. No problems since. Occasionally when on standard height and on a fair bit of lock with a lot of flex there can be very slight rubbing. No damage though. The Bighorns are 32 inch whereas the Wranglers are only 30 inch so I think that the extra inch under the diffs and door cills is very worthwile.

And the bighorns were $250 ea so I bought a new spare as well.