19' wheels real life experience - advice please

[ccwaggers]

Appreciate advice from those with actual experience with 19' wheels.

Run out models of the 2009 D3 are arriving with 19" wheels as no cost ad on. Seems general consensus is that that 17' are better for off road and therefore I am assuming view would be that 18' better than 19'.

I have to make a decision as to whether to press LR to swap back 18" wheels for my vehicle which is at the dealers.

All options would involve OEM tyres and I don't have anywhere to store spare set of rims.

90% of use around town and on highway. Going to moreton island in October (Sand). Other trips likely to be , bush tracks _ Snowy mountains / flinders. if i do decide to do a big trip would then be open to get specialised tyre / rim combination.

Appreciate advice .....

Thanks

[ccwaggers]

Issue resolved, dealer to swap for 18" with another vehicle not yet sold

[Desert Traveller]

On a recent Simspon-SA trip I managed to crack to 19" RR alloys. The tyres are MTR's and they survived well. The whole trip was done at a leasurely speeds because of the other vehicles in the convoy. I could not even recall a decent rock strike on the trip so I have some real concerns regarding further long trips on gravel roads.
Bottomline, the 19" setup is not suitable for outback touring.