I have a 98 Disco with 3" lift. Currently have 2457516 BFG AT on stock wheels. The tires look like toothpicks with the lift. Want a tank look. What is the largest tire that will work with wider wheels. I was looking at Nitto 2857017 w 9" wheels Was told that was too big. Would spacers help?

 

Also, wouldnt mind having larger tire in back than front maybe 285 rear 265 front? Not sure about 3" lift could be 2" bought it already done

 

I've got 285/75r16 33x11 with stock alloys on a 2" lift. I run 1.5 wheel spacers in the front

 

This sounds like a VERY bad idea on a vehicle that is always in AWD. That center diff is going to be working awfully hard to compensate.
Also, the Nitto 2857017 is for a 17" wheel, stock Rover wheels are 16" so you would need to swap wheels.
The first number(285/75/16) is the tire section width.
I run 315/75/16 KM2'S on stock alloy wheels with a 30mm spacer.

 

Come on give me little credit on the 17" wheel lol I was planning on 17x9 steelies


Please tell me more about your 31575's on stock wheels Does that require a ton of mods?

 

Well you did ask about larger tires in the back than front so yeah......
Most of the details are in my signature but here's a pic.

 

That is a sweet ride! I can see your lift is much higher than mine. And my stock bumper will not work. I've got some decisions to make to go in the direction I want. But the good news is I now realize I may not need wider wheels. Kinda like the stock wheel look I just hate my skinny *** tires.

 

3" RTE springs will accomodate 35s with some trimming. However stock axles, differntials, and gears won't like it so much. It will be terribly slow on stock gears and if you go offroad you will undoubtedly break something in the axles on 35s and some point.

 

Without fender cutting Rovers look damn redneck with 32+ tires. From a technical point, steering, acceleration, mpg, uptravel, ride quality, reliability, cost will all be worse. A wide tire in particular will give worse traction on most surfaces. The one trick your pony will do is ride that big fat front tire over a bigger rock than your pathetic "small" tire buddies. However, your buddies instead drove around the big rock and don't give a **** about about your tires.

That said, there is no "widest" tire that will fit. It depends on the fender mods, how much steering you want to loose, and offset or spacers.

 

Wider tires outperform skinny tires on all sorts of terrain. 32s may look "redneck" because it doesn't fit the mold. I'd run 37 if my axles would hold it. All depends what your trying to build. Skinny 32s are fine for an overland type rig but my goal is a crawler.