smckeown73

smckeown73

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I'm looking to get the Defender into my garage. It's too tall with the OE wheels on, so was wondering if there is a possibility of finding cheap car steels and tyres with matching PCD that I can put on to reduce the height. The other option would be to deflate the tyres significantly, but that cant be good for the tyre walls.

The other restriction is a rim large enough to get over the 300TDI disks/brakes.
 
Very much doubt there is a car wheel with the same PCD as a landrover, its a big old gap between the studs... you could just fit car tyres to your wheels though, get a very low profile, something like a 205/45/16 (or 15 depending on what wheels you got)
 
Might be easier to get a new door put on .. you wouldn't have to keep swapping wheels then!

Might be an idea, for a 'wheel' answer to mention how high the 'fender needs to be to get under ...
 
Someone else was on about something similar, having trouble get their fender in the garage with a up and over door which knocked the hieght of the opening down by about 8 inches and had to use steel rims with no tyres to under the door. There was a mention of changing to barn style doors to gain more height.
 
I suspect he has an issue with the whole garage height.. often its the beam over the doors.. I have same issue and cant get mine all the way in with rack/tent on.

There is only about an inch or 2 in it which will come out of the tyres but it will knacker them and I know at some point I would bleeding forget and drive out.
 
ok cheers chaps, I might try the steels with no tyres option. I shall get getting a new set of tyres and rims soon, so will cut the illegal tyres of my current steels.
 
What about going to your local car tyre place and asking for 4 bald 16" low profile tyres to stick on some old rims?

I drove me landy into the garage last year with no roof, assembled the soft top frame and tried to drive out...the result being a bent soft top frame and buckled door. :doh:

Depending on the height available, ratchet straps around the chassis and axles?
 
The V8 man said:
Can you not dig a couple of trenches to accomodate the tyres ?
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Years ago I lived in a house with that very feature. Grooves chiseled through the concrete garage floor. "It's for the last bloke's Land Rover" a neighbour helpfully volunteered. However it was no good for the Volkswagen we had at the time so we filled them in.
 
Brown said:
Years ago I lived in a house with that very feature. Grooves chiseled through the concrete garage floor. "It's for the last bloke's Land Rover" a neighbour helpfully volunteered. However it was no good for the Volkswagen we had at the time so we filled them in.
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should have left the grooves for ur landy and got some wooden blocks for vw..
 
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