whats the advantage to this ?

in another post i put up a picture of my 90 and asked if anyone recognised the wheels, a few guys commented and said they are ealry disco wheels.



my question is , why put disco wheels on a defender ? is it to mount bigger wider tyres ?

i'm not complaining guys just curious ?

Royster81 said:

in another post i put up a picture of my 90 and asked if anyone recognised the wheels, a few guys commented and said they are ealry disco wheels.

my question is , why put disco wheels on a defender ? is it to mount bigger wider tyres ?

i'm not complaining guys just curious ?

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I think the main advantage is their strength, i think they are made of pretty thick steel!

They are also 7" wide rather than the standard defender items which are 5.5".

and there cheap

Sirus said:

and there cheap

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and they look ****e..
and look even more ****e with small tyres on

very strong though

ya can bash em bak into shape

They are Tubless,
They are 7 inches wide, opposed to 5.5 or 6 6.5,
The offset isnt that much Good or Bad,
They are cheap,
Thay are steel and way better than alloys when offroading can be beaten back into shape if you need to be to keep you going,

jai_landrover said:

They are Tubless,
They are 7 inches wide, opposed to 5.5 or 6 6.5,
The offset isnt that much Good or Bad,
They are cheap,
Thay are steel and way better than alloys when offroading can be beaten back into shape if you need to be to keep you going,

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You missed out wiltys point

jai_landrover said:

they are tubless,
they are 7 inches wide, opposed to 5.5 or 6 6.5,
the offset isnt that much good or bad,
they are cheap,
thay are steel and way better than alloys when offroading can be beaten back into shape if you need to be to keep you going,
they look ****e
and look even more ****e with small tyres on

did i mention they look ****e

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:d

Lol I was being polite, lol But there is somthing about a 90 on 205's looks standard nice and un molested innocent. before the dirty likes of us get our hands on em!

jai_landrover said:

Lol I was being polite, lol But there is somthing about a 90 on 205's looks standard nice and un molested innocent. before the dirty likes of us get our hands on em!

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u got them beer goggles on again...nice!!! they look feckin awfull

ow and to answer your question yes they are indeed disco 1 steel wheels.

I think they look like shopping trolley wheels

I wish!
I put some 205 tyres on for my mot cos I had a couple of punctures on my 900's and the gearing was great the noise was spot on the landy felt worringly car like! and that was in the snow!

jai_landrover said:

I wish!
I put some 205 tyres on for my mot cos I had a couple of punctures on my 900's and the gearing was great the noise was spot on the landy felt worringly car like! and that was in the snow!

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u forgot to mention it looked ****e

its from a discovery its bound to be ****e

lol

ok so apart from ;

they are tubless,
they are 7 inches wide, opposed to 5.5 or 6 6.5,
the offset isnt that much good or bad,
they are cheap,
thay are steel and way better than alloys when offroading can be beaten back into shape if you need to be to keep you going,
they look ****e
and look even more ****e with small tyres on
there are off a disco is the thrice ****e

but i can mount some BFGoodrich mud-terrains then ? like these ones ?

http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/f7/new-tyres-wheels-96001.html

i know you can't polish a turd but i can at least put some decent tyres on it !

or are the BF's as **** as whats on it ?

you can run them backward so you have a large off set,

actually they have been turned around not just run backwards well at least I would hope so