Range Rover

Can somebody tell me whether or not Range Rover Vogue alloy's (3 spoke) will
fit straight onto a s111 88" landrover. Thanks

Aamandanut123456 wrote:
> Can somebody tell me whether or not Range Rover Vogue alloy's (3 spoke) will
> fit straight onto a s111 88" landrover. Thanks

AFAIK they will if you *don't* have free-wheeling hubs.

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In <[email protected]> Aamandanut123456 wrote:
> Can somebody tell me whether or not Range Rover Vogue alloy's (3 spoke)
> will fit straight onto a s111 88" landrover. Thanks

They should physically fit providing you don't have FWH and don't want
to use the centre caps (the oil caps stick through the hole where the
cap goes).

More important though are the wheel studs, the chances are that on a
Series motor it will not have the correct studs for the alloy wheel nuts.
Fitting the alloy wheel nuts to the wrong studs WILL cause the nuts to
come loose and, eventually, the wheels to fall off. Studs suitable for
alloy wheels should have a slot on the end of the stud.

cheers

Dave W.
http://www.yorkshireoffroadclub.net/

On 2004-12-13, Dave White <[email protected]> wrote:

> More important though are the wheel studs, the chances are that on a
> Series motor it will not have the correct studs for the alloy wheel nuts.
> Fitting the alloy wheel nuts to the wrong studs WILL cause the nuts to
> come loose and, eventually, the wheels to fall off. Studs suitable for
> alloy wheels should have a slot on the end of the stud.

Hello Dave, just out of interest, do you know why this happens and
what the slot is for? It's not something I've heard of before and as
a friend's Discovery recently lost a wheel while he was moving it's
something that I ought to chase up with him.

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In <[email protected]> Ian Rawlings wrote:
> On 2004-12-13, Dave White <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> More important though are the wheel studs, the chances are that on a
>> Series motor it will not have the correct studs for the alloy wheel
>> nuts. Fitting the alloy wheel nuts to the wrong studs WILL cause the
>> nuts to come loose and, eventually, the wheels to fall off. Studs
>> suitable for alloy wheels should have a slot on the end of the stud.
>
> Hello Dave, just out of interest, do you know why this happens and
> what the slot is for? It's not something I've heard of before and as
> a friend's Discovery recently lost a wheel while he was moving it's
> something that I ought to chase up with him.

I'd have expected a Discovery to have the correct wheel studs from the
factory so I doubt it's down to the studs.

AFAICR the alloy compatible studs are longer. The material they use for
the nuts is comparitively soft compared to steel nuts and so requires a
longer thread contact area. On later vehicles you pretty much expect the
studs to be long enough but on the leaf sprung models (and some earlier
coil sprung) there's no guarantee.

My early RR axles (1980) were shipped with Rostyle steel wheels. All
except one of the studs don't have slots on them, I assume the one that
does was replaced at some time in the past.

I have seen all this written down in a LR manual somewhere but can't
remember where

cheers

Dave W.
http://www.yorkshireoffroadclub.net/

In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] (Dave White) wrote:

>
> I'd have expected a Discovery to have the correct wheel studs from the
> factory so I doubt it's down to the studs.

If it's the Discovery I suspect it is, then mine is the same age and I've
just looked and the studs are unslotted. FWIW I believe that Discos from
that era came with steels as standard.

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Niamh
4x4 Cymru
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