Hi Gavin,
Sorry to hear of your saga.
Without wanting to profit from your misfortune, I may be interested in your wheels and tyres.
I'm about to post in my trailer buying advice thread asking for tips on where to buy wheels but this may just solve the problem.
Let me know your thoughts.
G'day (moniker rings a bell or two).
Feel free to contact me any-time by PM, or mobile zero 438 zero zero 3 1 zero 5.
Tyres should be back within a week and available to view in Beeliar. Probably will have at least 2 full LR sets after sorting out my needs. Cheers Gavin
I just pulled the hubs off my car trailer as I am mucking around trying to fit D1 steel wheels to it.
They are actually 2 tonne hubs, not parallel (1600kg), hence bigger.
So I believe my original comment still stands, that Land Rover rims fit Parallel hubs.
I'd say that's your problem, you have 2t hubs aswell.
Could be right Will. Caravan arrived just before Xmas, and now due to be handed over early next week after delayed pre-delivery. Will check when it's finally in my possession, just to satisfy myself 100% after all the stuff ups.
You wouldn't believe it, but when the 4 "not able to be fitted to Control Rider hubs" rims/tyres were coming back to WA, someone half hitched one off the truck in Vic, so the poor transport Co is now up for a new rim ($540 ex Southerns) and new Bridgestone Dueller AT LT 265 75 R16 tyre (697 as 693 is now superseded) at $335 fitted/balanced - ouch.
So will have to advertise 5 Defender (Blast?) alloys for sale when I get the replacement hopefully in 7 - 10 days. Then I'll have less tyres/rims than you - currently at 26 plus.
At the risk of hijacking my own thread, when Blknight was in Perth over Xmas we were going to try an experiment with modifying the generator and/or van a/c system to make it more of a soft start arrangement so I could safely use my 2KVa Honda genset on hot days/nights. Unfortunately the dealer would not let us near the van (insurance concerns) so that is a project in waiting. Might be a trip to Katherine in the wings.
If Dave's idea worked, as I'm sure it would have, would be a boon to many grey nomads and others. Couldn't get him to think about patenting or selling the idea or manufacturing etc though.
D4 rims did not fit my 1600 kg parallel hubs without machining the hubs and then would have required spacers to clear the caps had I wanted to fit the D4 rims. The X5 rims I was fitting did not require spaces because their hub cap hole was large enough to clear the hub's cap.Quote:
Originally Posted by MR LR
Sorry, was referring to Defender/D1/RRC.Quote:
Originally Posted by Graeme
D2 and D3 wheels fit with the spacer and machining like you say.
The original poster was refering to Defender alloy wheels,they will not fit,steel ones will.Quote:
Originally Posted by MR LR
Andrew
I think we had that pretty well covered ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by LandyAndy
Issue is control rider is 2 tonne, not parallel like we thought.