How about the rims. I'd like an offset that goes very near the arches without spacers. Had a look at Paddocks, but they seem quite expensive per wheel. Was only hoping to spend £125 max per wheel (including tyre). Perhaps that is optimistic.
In short, there are lots of options available, all are right, but not everyone likes them all.
You main options include:
1. Buy some new steel rims, either 8 spokes, modulars or similar. Most have a deeper dish offset, even more so if they are 8" wide. Not sure on price, but last time I bought some you could get them for £25-35/rim. If you buy a package of rims and tyres together you'll likely save on fitting and balancing, else budget £15-20 per tyre for this at a local tyre shop.
Quality of steel rims varies, but I've not had much joy ever in finding out who sells the good ones and who doesn't. All I can say is, they will likely rust, mine did within a year of being on the vehicle. Hence the pics above show my Disco with white rims and later on with grey ones (I hammerited them).
2. Buy some used steel rims. Same as above but maybe cheaper, although you'll need to pay for fitting and balancing and likely some paint.
If you want to stick with a Landy look, then you could find some used 109 One Ton rims. These are a deep dish version of the standard Landy rim. Vasses sell them for around £25-30/rim.
3. Wheel spacers. Some hate these, but the way I look at it, they don't do anything any different really to a deeper off set rim. As long as they are quality spacer and hubcentric I can't really see a problem. If you think about it, if you took a standard Landy rim and welded a spacer to the back of it, then milled out the nave plate to allow you countersink the hub nuts so you could bolt it on. It would be doing 100% the same thing as any other deep offset rim, all you've done is moved the centre line of the rim further away from the vehicle. The only difference is a wheel spacer has an extra set of bolts.
- One thing to watch for, do you plan on doing any sort of off road competitions such as RTV trials? If so, then make sure what you pick can be used. As a rule wheel spacers are prohibited from ALRC events, they also only allow a max of 4" from the naive plate to the outer flange of the rim, so some deep dish rims aren't permitted.
-If you are wanting a more beefy look, then a 235/85 might not be the best answer as they are quite narrow.
If that's the case and you are wanting new rims, then maybe a swap to a 31.10.50R15 tyre would be something to consider. The KL71's are available in this size and are slightly cheaper than the 235's.
The 31.10.50 is wider (about 267mm) and a very similar height. Run them on some 15x10 8 spokes or modular rims and they should fill the arches nicely and give you that wider stance. The wider tyre means it might rub the front radius arm a little more, but you would have had to adjust the steering stops with the 235's, so it's only an extra turn or so on the bolts.
