JeremyO

New Member

• Apr 15, 2007

• #1

Hope you guys can help me out here, looking to get a set of spares for my 55 TD4, just to use for laning. Am I mad or is there a good compromise that you can recommend. If a separate set is the way to go can I fit a set of wheels of a Defender or a Disco on the freelander as I have seen sets of Defender wheels going quite cheap on FreeBay...

You expertises as ever is much appreciated...

 

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stig

New Member

• Apr 15, 2007

• #2

defender wheels have a different "pcd" so they will not fit. Just get some freelander steels and put some decent rubber on them.

 

G13SJC

New Member

• Apr 15, 2007

• #3

JeremyO said:

Hope you guys can help me out here, looking to get a set of spares for my 55 TD4, just to use for laning. Am I mad or is there a good compromise that you can recommend. If a separate set is the way to go can I fit a set of wheels of a Defender or a Disco on the freelander as I have seen sets of Defender wheels going quite cheap on FreeBay...

You expertises as ever is much appreciated...

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I keep a set of steel wheels as my second set. These often go very cheaply (ie £100 with half worn tyres). The only issue here is whether they will fit your vehilce. What size do you have currently??

I'm 90% sure that they would fit, but some changes were made around year 2000 that mean older wheels (like 1998, 1999) etc wont fit due to revised hubs.

The Guru's will be along soon to confirm...

I do also see a lot of 15" alloys and tyres going on ebay as many people upgrade to larger wheels. You could use these for off road and winter leaving your other Wheels for summer road use.

Regards,

Steve

 

sheriff

Active Member

• Apr 15, 2007

• #4

should be able to get some cheap steel+tyres if they're 16" but if yave got
17" you'll need to be lucky for some cheapies and also I'm told that everythings set up purely for 17" if theyre fitted and not to try 16" with a deeper profile tyre but I'm sure some of the boffs on ere may know different and put me straight.

 

G13SJC

New Member

• Apr 15, 2007

• #5

Never seen 16" steelies for the freelander, but thats just me....

 

Blippie

Well-Known Member

• Apr 16, 2007

• #6

We run both Freelanders on alloys - one has 16" alloys with BFGoodrich AT tyres and one has 15" with road biased rubber. We also have a complete spare set of 16" alloys that I got for £100 with BFG ATs on, which the one with road tyres on can change into if required.

BFG ATs are great, last for ages, plus have good road manners. Colway doe an AT with the same pattern as BFG's but are half the price. Don't know if they wear as well.

If we didn't use our offroad Freelander regularly on road, we probably would have gone for a spare set of Colway ATs for occasional use.

Does that make sense?

Cheers

Blippie