Spare wheel is fouling the bumper

shadyadie · Apr 18, 2023

Decided to change my tyres to mud from road and my spare is touching the bumper and stopping me from opening the back door.
Is there a plate or something that you can use to raise the spare wheel. Or could I just fit it with the top 2 bolts. ?

steve24v · Apr 18, 2023

On the disco 2 you can flip the carrier up the other way to give it a bit of a lift. Middle bolt holes won't line up though

sierrafery · Apr 18, 2023

Dont use much bigger than standard tyres then

shadyadie · Apr 18, 2023

They are the same tyre size as the road tyres that were on it, but the tread is a lot deeper

Landmark2 · Apr 18, 2023

I assume your door hinges haven't dropped
Griff

sierrafery · Apr 18, 2023

shadyadie said:
They are the same tyre size as the road tyres that were on it, but the tread is a lot deeper

What's that size?

shadyadie · Apr 18, 2023

235/85/r16
This is when I find out there tooooo big.
Hope my door hasn't dropped only had it a couple of months.
Can't check at the moment cause I will have to take the spare off to open it.

sierrafery · Apr 18, 2023

But what vehicle are we speaking about here in the Discovery section though?

shadyadie · Apr 18, 2023

2002 discovery

sierrafery · Apr 18, 2023

Then your only probem is the too big tyre as the vehicle was built for max 235/70/16 tyres and if it's not tuned for those almost 10% bigger tyres this will be your smallest issue in the future, i'll not go into this again cos i explained too many times how bad this can be for a D2 which was not tuned for that... here's just a "flavour" https://www.landyzone.co.uk/land-rover/speedo-out-of-synch.375403/

shadyadie · Apr 18, 2023

Bum
first expensive lesson learnt, the tyres came with the disco. And the garage never said anything when fitting them.
Never thought they might be too big.

sierrafery · Apr 18, 2023

Better fit some std dimension tyres or max 5% bigger(nothing which exceeds the circumference of 255/70/16) but with standard after those huge ones i'm sure you'll be pleased how well it runs and watch the consumption too

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