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Originally Posted by pie4foou
i never thought of that... about makin it more stable. Makes perfect sense too. I'm going to be buying some steelies pretty soon, what size should i be looking for?
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Something close, but not perfect, is to reverse the steel Discovery rims. Here in Oz, nearly all the early Discoveries came with steel rims. Of course everyone wanted alloy wheels, so the dealers took off the steel rims and put alloys on. This made the steel rims relatively cheap then (more expensive now they are rarer). By cutting the centres out, reversing them and welding them back in, they gave a pretty good offset. This what I have on my car.
Went I fitted them I went from a 1 inch body lift to a 2 inch lift and bigger tyres. The car was more stable afterwards than what it was before the changes. I run 255/85/16 BFG MTs on those rims and they are my road tyres. I also have a set of 15 inch rims which are an extra inch wider. The extra width on on the inside and the outside distance is the same as the Disco rims. On these I run my off-road Simex tyres.
