Interesting 18" wheel facts
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Interesting 18" wheel facts
I've noticed a weight difference between early 10 spoke wheels and late. Also, there is a wheel that I never saw on an LR3 except for on the cover of the Terrafirma catalog.
Turns out this wheel only made it to the US on U.K. Spec 2005 RRS via a special employee lease program. To tease the market Land Rover offered a lease program to employees on base model RRS. Since these were SE models they came with 18"s. Even the VIN tags have the date format U.K. Style.
The wheels are made in Hungary by Suoftec. Same weight rating, 940 KG.
Early 10 spoke- 31 pounds
Late 10 spoke- 25.2 pounds
UK edition Suoftec- 29.5 pounds
see photos in order:
Turns out this wheel only made it to the US on U.K. Spec 2005 RRS via a special employee lease program. To tease the market Land Rover offered a lease program to employees on base model RRS. Since these were SE models they came with 18"s. Even the VIN tags have the date format U.K. Style.
The wheels are made in Hungary by Suoftec. Same weight rating, 940 KG.
Early 10 spoke- 31 pounds
Late 10 spoke- 25.2 pounds
UK edition Suoftec- 29.5 pounds
see photos in order:
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There is also another 10 spoke 18" wheel design I've only seen a few times:
LR048088
Don't know if it was intended for use on the LR3, but it works. I've only ever seen it on eBay a handful of times. Listed as 14.58kg or 32lbs.
Ah but Abran, you're already familiar with that style:
https://landroverforums.com/forum/pr...r048088-75382/
LR048088
Don't know if it was intended for use on the LR3, but it works. I've only ever seen it on eBay a handful of times. Listed as 14.58kg or 32lbs.
Ah but Abran, you're already familiar with that style:
https://landroverforums.com/forum/pr...r048088-75382/
Last edited by djkronik57; 02-23-2017 at 04:21 PM.
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There is also another 10 spoke 18" wheel design I've only seen a few times:
LR048088
Don't know if it was intended for use on the LR3, but it works. I've only ever seen it on eBay a handful of times. Listed as 14.58kg or 32lbs.
Ah but Abran, you're already familiar with that style:
https://landroverforums.com/forum/pr...r048088-75382/
LR048088
Don't know if it was intended for use on the LR3, but it works. I've only ever seen it on eBay a handful of times. Listed as 14.58kg or 32lbs.
Ah but Abran, you're already familiar with that style:
https://landroverforums.com/forum/pr...r048088-75382/
I have officially moved on!
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Abran certainly gave up; he sold me the one wheel that he did have. We came to the conclusion that if I was looking for one and he was looking for four, we would no doubt never find them as separate parties. A sacrifice on his behalf, that seems to have paid off! The ten spokes in you picture look nicer than mine Abran!!
Last edited by spiderman; 02-28-2017 at 12:26 AM.
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