Back from Fraser- Need new rims. Want pics of steelies

[Fraz]

Back from Fraser Island - had a great time, after the first 20 mins on the island anyways.

Seems no-one told me about the numerous and deadly freshwater washouts that plague the beaches.
Within 15 minutes of hitting the sand, we had an accident. Smashed up one LR alloy, damaged another (both front) and bent the steering arm (the one that goes from wheel to wheel)

Looking back, a dead giveaway was the red jeep sitting on the otherside of the unobvious creekbed that we hit. He snapped an axle, transfer case was lying on the sand, and both airbags went off. Nearly threw some serious haymakers in his direction for not warning us. My fault i suppose.

For the rest of the adventure, straight was past 1/4 turn left


So: need some repacement rims. From day dot I wanted to get rid of the alloys for this exact reason.

After some STEEL rims. Keen to see some names of rims and pictures of your rides with them on her. Im told that the next tyre purchase should be 255/85s, so how wide do these rims need to be?

Fraz

[BigJon]

. My fault i suppose.

Sure was...

255s will go on 7 or 8 inch rims.

[incisor]

second victim from the site in recent times

the alloys may well have saved you a lot of other damage by letting go as they did.

i run 255/85's on disco steel rims.

[GuyG]

Wow, 2nd LR to break both front rims on Fraser from hitting washouts

I've just spoken to my father who went to Fraser yesterday for the week and he said the beach was the best that he's seen it for years. What tides were you travelling at? We have always worked on the theory of travelling 2-3 hours either side of low tide.

[stig0000]

ur not the bloke with that 130, im the guy with the gray 110 that was towing the ship reck, was a asum pic

we should of had both hooked up,

i must say his not the only one, we rote off a car from a wash out as well,
all tho am glad it wasent mine and no one hert,, but nether the less,, its hard seen a nother landrover bite the dust,

[Fraz]

yeh stig thats me..

the beach was in good driving conditions, but there was a fair bit of rain the night before we got on the island. Just excess drainage I suppose.

It was a sad moment, but just more of a reason for me to justify new tyres and rims real soon. I have no useable spare at the moment.

Still, all the rain and washouts didnt stop us doing what we went there to do. I still clocked up just about 500klms in 4 days AND was the only truck in our group of 5 to do so...

What do black sunrays look like on a 130??

[cal415]

Go the black sunnies, Bob jane at Kotara should be able to sort you out for a pretty decent price, while your at it grab some 255-85-16 Maxxis bighorns, Go check out Wortho's d1 at ARB, he is running that setup at the moment.

My sister did something similar when we were there, a little to fast over a wash out and damaged a rim, dobbo also had some interesting moments over the wash outs launching his car, so your not the only one....

What alloys are you running anyway?

[camel_landy]

Steelies may not help you either...

...That's how I think I managed to split a pair of mine.

M

[cal415]

Btw where's the pics

[Fraz]

Btw where's the pics

There are no pics of the crime scene, that I know of anyways. In all the excitement of changing a tyre in the sand - there was no time for cameras

Here are a few I took just now. The steering arm looks worse than the photos

Hard to show but if you look closely enough, the left front side steering tie rod end housing thingy has actually shaved off the bent part of the rim - and I only drove it from the site about 25m to better sand so I could change it.

anyone after 3 good LR alloys, 1 bad one and 1 ruined one??
A mate seems to think they are semi repairable... any ideas?