I just acquired an 05 Lr3 HSE v8 with 130k miles. It has a 2 in lift. I’m new to land rovers so i have many questions.

Can i run 32 in tires?
what maint issues should i immediately look into other than normal oil change etc.
what performance upgrades would u recommend?

thanks for any input and looking forward to sharing my journey and reading about yours.

 

Hi and welcome to the forum and congrats on the purchase.

When you say yours has a 2" lift, do you mean it has Johnson rods fitted to fool the EAS into raising by 2", or do you have a coil spring conversion that has a 2" lift.

As for running with 32" you can check out the link below that gives you the info you are looking for, but for 32 you will need some sort of increase over the standard height, you may also have to do some cutting of trim in the wheel arches - search the forum and you will find threads on this

Tire Sizes

 

it has the johnson rods (marketing genius came up with that name lol)

thanks for the link, very helpful. I’ll do some digging in here for the other info

 

You can run 32s. There may be some slight rubbing in Access Height (with Rods, so really it's Normal Height) especially in reverse or uphill in reverse. At Normal height (really off-road) it won't really be an issue. As for trimming stuff....really don't need to except in the rear there is the little lip on the wheel well liner (fwd end of rear wheel well liner) and there is a metal flange there where two body pieces are welded together. Easy to get to that and pound it flat (then primer it) but if you have 3rd row Climate Control there is some HVAC **** back there. Also the frame horns in the front wheel well. Mine were not in the way (2005) but on later models it needed to be dealt with. So you might be okay too since you have an '05.

 

don't mess with that HVAC **** back there.
I run 33s on my 07 but I am on STEEL 18s that I got from Lucky8.
If you got a manual with yours, read it. Lots of stuff in there to help you out. Seriously!