Thread: Defender steel wheels

Dynamic steel wheels in 16 x 7. Available through most tyre shops - they may have to order in Defender stud pattern ones so may take a few days. I had them on my previous Defender and could not fault them.

I'd be getting them re-rolled, not very expensive.

Originally Posted by bryco

He calls me halfway through the job and tells me that 3/5 of my disco steel rims are buckled!

Buckled by damage or out of round?


There's two types of Disco 1 wheels. Early wheels had 4 welds securing the outer rim to the centre. These seemed fine in the 1991 - 1994 cars but somehow developed a vibration issue from 1995.


After Land Rover replaced several sets of wheels with alloys under warranty, an 8 weld wheel was made which solved the problem.

Thanks Vlad, yeah those dynamics seem to be the only brand out there. Not too bad on price either.
I had been looking at re painting the disco rims or getting new ones but now with this issue also I don't think it would be cost effective to have them re rolled AND painting them so I think my hand has been forced on that front.
Scouse, im not 100% but theres no obvious damage to them. They had developed a slight vibration but I just put that down to tyre wear and a bad balance. I'll be interested to sus that one out.

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It's a bugger we are so far apart,I have two sets of steel deefer rims in NSW you could have had. Pat

Originally Posted by bryco

Thanks Vlad, yeah those dynamics seem to be the only brand out there. Not too bad on price either.
I had been looking at re painting the disco rims or getting new ones but now with this issue also I don't think it would be cost effective to have them re rolled AND painting them so I think my hand has been forced on that front.
Scouse, im not 100% but theres no obvious damage to them. They had developed a slight vibration but I just put that down to tyre wear and a bad balance. I'll be interested to sus that one out.

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You can also get King rims, don't really recommend them though, lighter as an 8" than the 6.5" LR HD rims, also due to the shape of the rim on the bead they pushed mud into the bead causing a slow leak first time out. Went back to the original HD 130 rims ( which the tyrefitter complained about as buckled) a couple years ago.

geez there are a lot of defer owners running disco rims……….i cannot recall and threads on hear about buckled rims

maybe you just got unlucky……i would stick with the disco rims

X2 for the Dynamic wheels.

I paid $115 inc fitting my tyres last year.

So far have been very pleased with them on the 130.

Cheers
Phil