Thread: Series 3 wheel colour and rear mudflap question

my '79 109 has white LR mud flaps on brkt's welded onto rear crossmember -that's the way it was done, my rims are white though I've got some silver ones too
There's a list of paint codes here,none metallic colour
possibly artic white? hope this helps
Brett

Mine originally had white mud flaps on the welded bracket on the crossmember.

I now have black defender ones though as the white are hard to get and we had a spare set of defender ones here.

My wheels are silver, can't remember what the original colour was.

HTH

Mrs hh

I seem to remember that the Camino Gold ones had sandstone coloured wheels and the later Bahama gold ones had silver.

The mudflaps were on the horrid brackets welded to the chassis, the early Camino Gold ones had the Leyland wheel motif while the later suffix SIII returned to the name "Land Rover" - not sure when that change over happened.

Perhaps UncleHo or Brian Hjelm will have better memories on the change over.

A lot of people used to retrofit the SIIa mudflaps which are very similar to the Defender ones.

Originally Posted by pfillery

Is the correct colour for Series 3 wheels supposed to be silver or cream/white?

It is a 75 model 109" Australian built Leyland badged, paint is Camino gold and roof is the standard off white/pale cream colour.

I have seen some with silver wheels (this is what mine has currently including the spare which looks original) but some with cream/white wheels as well. Just curious whether they came with either/or or was it model or year dependant?

Also are the standard rear mudflaps supposed to be on brackets welded to the bottom of the rear cross member? Most rear cross members I've seen on any series have nothing there. I want to cut mine off because I think they look ugly but will leave them/modify them if they are original.

in the uk we either have them painted the same colour as the vehicle its on, or limestone (creamy /white ) to match the roof and side panels

or if you're like me and drive a rough hack as a daily you could end up with limestone rims on one side of the motor and black ones on the other side ...

it really confuses the observant

Early S111's had Limestone that matched the roof,silver was for trayback utes from memory.