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beggers:
Would I have to do much cuttin to fit wheel spacers with the 235/85 tires?????

Range Rover Blues:
Again looking at that pic (not a true comparison as the RRC is wider than the Disco) you can see how near the bodywork you'll get.  Add on what, 40mm for spacers :-k and I reckon you'll be rubbing most of the wheelarch on full tilt.

BTW, has anyone else noticed you get far more compression when the back of the truck is tilted over (ie front wheel in the air), I reckon it's because the weight moves over the comrpessed spring and squeezes it more.  Same thing doesn't happen at the front because the weight is further back.

clbarclay:
Yep thats good old weight transphere

Forwards up a ramp and the front axle did very little, but rear flexed a lot


Backwards up a ramp and total articulation was reduced, but front axle moved a lot more


With that setup there rear tyre did just tuck inside the wheel arch and only caught slightly on the section of inner arch that the doors outer seal fitted against. But as Andy points out these body pannels effectivly had a cammel cut from new. In this picture you can see that the front axle drooped about as much as when reversed up, but its the opposited side didn't compress as much.


If you get a little carried away with tyre size and wheel offset then you can end up cutting rather a more out of the aches than just a cammel cut. That was with 10.5" wide tyres and the equiverlant of using 40mm wheel spacers on each side.


Oh and Andy, stop tauning the discovery owners with body pannels that are right shape to start with :lol:

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