To wheel space or not to wheel space???

G'day all,
Thinking about putting on 30mm wheel spacers on Disco1. Pros and cons anyone. Priced them here in Oz....$800...thieving bastards.Any ideas on U.K cost? As i will be there in a few weeks and can pick them up then. Alternatively, does anyone have a set they wish to sell?
Boxhead63

and you want to do that because ?

ffs yer vehicle has bin designed in a certain way, taking into account various stresses and loads. one of these loads is the load put on yer wheel bearings and suspension. By moving your wheels out by 30mm you increase the load put on these components by a reet shed load.

and before we get the " i've put spacers on my mini and it didn't affect it " brigade . yer have to understand that a mini had 10" or 12" wheels fitted,probably with low profile tyres. where as yer landy has 16" or bigger with 80% profiles, so the extra leverage be applied is about 15-20 times greater.

Doing a fair bit of beach/mud driving and thinking wider stance may help in that horrible sinking feeling. Also coming up early next year is a job that will see me in some very hilly country that the wider track may help with as well.
Thanks for the reply.
Boxhead63

agreed with slob, the extra strain it puts on ur wheel bearings etc and suspension is gonna wear out all the related components pretty quickly, specially if you use it off road a lot, or with heavy loads.

Hi Slob, Currently fitted in the suspension dept. Is OME spring and shock kit with 2" lift The bearings are standard fit but will probably replace before the next trip as i will be remote 4-6 weeks at a time.
Boxhead63

i don't see how a wider stance will help in mud/beach . as you will still have the same weight going through the same size contact area. hilly country maybe, but then you have to consider what effect driving over a rock will have with the extra load that will be applied to afore mentioned bearings and suspension bits.

i did about 6 or 7 months is the oz outback in a holden ha panel van. the number of ****s in 4wd's i past, stuck because of busted suspension was rather high. keep it standard just use a higher standard of driving. don't be tempted to stick fook orf huge tyres on either as all you do is present a bigger target to those tyre destroying rocks you will come across.

standard tyres with slighty lower pressure in them. the lower pressure allows the tyre to form around that rock that would otherwise puncture yer tyre or even knacker it completly.

Tiz not only spacing - but wheel offset - it shd be possible to space the wheel centre out and then fit a wider rim, offset back to bring the loading back closer to its original position.

ffs daft thats one of yer bammier ideas.. if yer gonna be swapping rims fer bigger ones why not just buy ones with the required offset in the furst place

exactly Monsieur! I werent advocating doing it - I was just pointing out that offset is as significant as the spacing and/or rim width.

hey guys sounds like a **** of an idea to go with the spacers anyways. bloody expensive in the maintenance dept. . Currently the Disco is shod with 255/75 16 Dunlop MT2,s. been of great service. The whole tyre/suspension package, that is. I was probably trying to enhance that.
Sounds like a bad,bad,bad idea. Will spend the cabbage elsewhere.
Boxhead63