BIGGER TYRES on a commander

[multihull]

Originally Posted by Wanderer

Hello multihull,

Rims look familiar ..Dynamics steels 84 mm CB .....Hmmmm, on the Commander 71.5 mm hub without some sort of centering rings places a lot of stress on the studs anyway the rims in my last post are alloys which I've been looking at instead of the AEVs I now have of which I've cracked 5 so far .... I have found steels with the correct CB c/w nice centre caps.

Yep no centering ring but these rims are only used on weekends at 4x4 parks where i only do slow driving and very few miles. If i was going out west to the Simpson desert or similar where there's many 100's of miles of high speed corrugated roads etc yes i would certainly have a set of centering rings turned up

[08crd]

Nice rims.

[Wanderer]

Glad you said that

Originally Posted by multihull

If i was going out west to the Simpson desert or similar where there's many 100's of miles of high speed corrugated roads etc yes i would certainly have a set of centering rings turned up

and same rims as 08crd...

Had a mate who went out to the centre solo a couple of years ago and got stuck on a salt pan up to the axles..Didn't check his winch out before he left and guess what???...Didn't work so .rang (on sat phone) the 4x4 shop who installed it and got the short answer "Where are you??...In which of the 1 million or so salt pans??...(long pause)..Sorry can't help...Too bad mate...(ring tone)" or words to that efect so he spent 3 days collecting rocks and thank God he had my hi-lift jack..Jacked the 4x4 up and fill the trenched with rocks and manged to get out luckily before more rain ...Moral of the story (& real) is don't leave anything to chance....A stuffed set of wheel studs out there wouldn't do the blood pressure much good....Don't think the sat phone would be of much help either.

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[Wanderer]

Here is an alternative and available from Bob Jane

Just talked to a bloke who has a new Grand Overland and was admiring his very spic alloy wheels (aftermarket)...The things you find out...They are "Pure Wheels" and nice...They are from Bob Jane who has them as blanks, machines them to the correct Grand/Commander Centre Bore 71.5mm and drills to Jeep PCD 127mm but don't think there is a b;lank for 17x8"

Also with the new Grand: appears you have much difficulty fitting extra spots/driving lights because they have one HID light that does both hi & lo beam: voltage is varied according to what is selected - hi or lo - and monitored by the ECU so no individual hi-beam wire to connect the spot relay to.

Also can't have a bullbar on the Overland because of the Adaptive Cruise Control ( radar) thing is in the centre of the plastic bar