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anthonyas11:
Hi everyone,

I'm fairly new to this offroading but do work in the motor trade, so I'm not a completetrain wreck.

My new pride and joy is a Suzuki Vitara JLX SE drop top with fat boy arches and wheels. The wheels on the car are currently road tyres so obviously I want to replace them with something a lot better!

Does anyone have any idea what size they are? I cant seem to see them anywhere around the tyre wall on either side....


Kind regards,

Anthony.

generation-x:
hi anthony

usuall tyre size for fat bois are 255x60x15
if you are going to fit offroad tyres on id sell the current wheel tyre combo and by a set of offroad wheels and tyres

Simon

anthonyas11:
Yeah I managed to find it on the inside edge...

What kind of width is more ideal? Its likely to be used mostly for greenlaning, but the reason I was thiking of keeping these wider wheels is that next year I'll be looking to enter it for the Riphay Scuffle which is essentially just a bog pit....Thought the wider tyres would help then.

The Vit has done 130k and I'll end up scrapping it after the scuffle I rekon. Not sure which route to go down.

Thanks for the help though!

Anthony.

generation-x:
hi anthony

if you are atopping with standard susspension and no body lift you are limited to off road tyre size
prob 215/80/15 will be the biggest you will get under the arches as said before (ithink) you will need to fit wheel spacers else it will look pants with the wider arches (assuming you have either the 8 or 10 " arches fitted)

if you want to fit tyres to your fat boi rims the very smallest you cud fit are 31/10.5/15 these will still be a pain to fit on the extra wide rims and will leave the
side wall expossed a bit but i have run such a combo for over 12 months on a previous lwb vit with no issues


hope this helps

simon

anthonyas11:
Thanks Simon thats excellent.

I've managed to talk myself into turning this into more of a project now so I'm gonna free up some more money.

I'm planning on a lift now but I'm getting different opinions form everyone.

I hope to fit 31x10.50x15 tyres to her, probably leave the extensions on for road use. However how would you choose to lift the car. I understand a body lift with spring spacers is needed to fit the tyres, but I'm also being told a 3" body lift then requires be to increase the steering rack and gear stick length.

I've been looking to do a coil spring extension of 3 inch but then apparently I can't fit larger tyres. So what would you reccomend.

I was maybe thinking a 1.5" spacer lift and then coil springs of 1.5-2".....is this something that you would think may work?


Many thanks,


Anthony.

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