off road wheels

[random512]

Hello, does anyone here use off road wheels on their land rover? Something like black gloss 8-hole, D-window, beadlock, etc. Crager, Mickey Thompson, etc. True off-road wheels not factory mall cruiser wheels. If so then please post pics.

 

[Houm_WA]

LR3s don't come on "factory mall cruiser wheels." By all accounts, LR3 wheels are practically beadlocks themselves and have an adequate load rating for the LR3's girth. I read somewhere that the rims have virtues of beadlocked ones, and the installers putting on my tires confirmed as much, when asked.

So I don't think you're gonna find a lot of positive responses to your question. I do believe though that Lucky8's project LR3 used some other rims.

 

[jwest]

Hello, does anyone here use off road wheels on their land rover? Something like black gloss 8-hole, D-window, beadlock, etc. Crager, Mickey Thompson, etc. True off-road wheels not factory mall cruiser wheels. If so then please post pics.

Sounds like a Jeep to me....

You may be calling 20" wheels "cruiser" but the 18" are perfectly suited for anywhere/anything, the LR3/4 can go.

As Houm says, these factory wheels actually have a wider than normal bead seat to help with holding the bead in low air pressure, rugged situations. Even though the 19" are silly off road, they also have a better than normal bead seat.

The factory wheels are load rated higher than a lot of aftermarket cheap wheels that may "look" or claim to be for "off road".

Not that you cannot find a wheel that would work, the hardest part you will find is not the bolt pattern but the center bore because it is required to be "hub centering".

If you want to put your money where your attitude filled post is going, have some steel wheels custom built like is done for the Arctic Trucks seen in Iceland.

Basically, do it up right or quit ********

 

[jwest]

LR3s don't come on "factory mall cruiser wheels." By all accounts, LR3 wheels are practically beadlocks themselves and have an adequate load rating for the LR3's girth. I read somewhere that the rims have virtues of beadlocked ones, and the installers putting on my tires confirmed as much, when asked.

So I don't think you're gonna find a lot of positive responses to your question. I do believe though that Lucky8's project LR3 used some other rims.

Well, I don't know if in the later years, a 20" "factory option" was available on the lr3 (they are on lr4 obviously) but I'd kind of consider the factory 19" that came on my lr3 to be highway wheels (all HSE had 19" standard, SE had 18").

For comparison, my Discovery 2 has 16" wheels that are perfect for off road use. In that era, 16" was standard and 18" was the "factory option wheel upgrade". I have both for my 2004 because it actually came with 18" but I bought the 16" and put on BFG AT KO in 265/75x16. Factory tire size was 255/55x18 so the change is significant and just perfect for a Disco 2 with 2" OME lift.

 

[Houm_WA]

I think you scared the OP away!!!

 

[jwest]

go big or go home

 

[tlt]

They might have been referring to the 17" wheels that are offered through Lucky8

 

[jwest]

They might have been referring to the 17" wheels that are offered through Lucky8

Not possible.

 

[Houm_WA]

What's not possible, jwest? 17s? It is. I've seen it! (Not without some changes to the brakes though, or rotors, one of the two...I forget)

 

[jwest]

Houm, consider what I was responding to. The statement, not the content: not possible the OP was "referring" to that.
the existence of 17's were unknown to him or else it would have been mentioned rather than a bunch of uninformed nonsense.