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chris.hunt22:
Much the same as above, just fitted a 2" lift to mine, didn't go with any bigger as I trust the experience and judgment of people on here and the general concensus was if you go bigger than 2" you are opening up a whole big can of trouble, Have a look at my post (in here somewhere) for before and after pics of my 2" lift, with the tyres I have gained 4 1/2" from what it was, original springs sag over the years so you probably loose an inch in 10 years than when it left the showroom.

Range Rover Blues:
Any lift will increase approach and departure angles, breakover angles etc.

A lift plus big tyres will get clearence under the diffs, so it depends on how you tackle obsticles.

Anyway, every inch of lift adds about 1 1/2 degree to the front propshaft UJ and reduces castor by the same amount.

Castor correction makes the top UJ even worse whilst straightening out the bottom UJ (assuming 3 degrees of correction).

But as already said, above 2 degrees you start having to think about a new front prop (cardan or wide angle), you really must fit castor correction (though this can be done with modified swivels), brake lines etc etc, none of which comes cheap.

And it will handle a lot worse.

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