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In Australia, wheel spacers/adaptors are illegal except where fitted by manufacturers as standard. The Aust authorities (9 authorities) consider them so unsafe that if a vehicle is caught with them fitted the vehicle is ordered off the road immediately.

Motolab wrote:

ClassikFan wrote:

Christian from LR Time says

Exploitation of a youtube channel does not make the channel owner a specialist by default/automatically, although some think it works that way.. (Note: i do not know him, so i don’t know if he really knows or not)

a claim has to be backed up by evidence otherwise it is “hear say” / 🦜 talk

Christian happens to know more about the D3 than any Land Rover Dealership Technicians put together know... A very clever guy and a big supporter of this forum. Just sayin'

Gnomad wrote:

I've been thinking of some wheel adapters to run Wrangler wheels on my LR3, so they would kind be like spacers. And why you might ask? 18" rover wheels here are like rocking horse droppings or chicken lips, Wrangler wheels a dime a dozen and 18" tire selection much better. The question might be how wide can one go before things go haywire?
We have no inspections here. Anything goes!

From what has been said here so far, and elsewhere, even an inch each side is going to do damage long term. Wouldn't it be cheaper for you to get some OEM 18s shipped in from the UK? Plenty on eBay here. The cost of shipping would likely outweigh the damage would cost you eventually... Snap them up before the tariffs are levied

Globe&Laurel wrote:

Akin to putting a raised air intake on your car when you have no intention of wading through anything other than a puddle. Apparently, you can get a ram-air effect one way, or a less dust effect the other. Right.

A raised air intake [RAI] give absolutely no benefit at all in wading, it is merely just as the name suggests - air that is being drawn in naturally [not 'ram'], but at a higher level.

Many confuse an RAI with a Snorkel..... each serves a different requirement.

NJSS wrote:

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In Australia, wheel spacers/adaptors are illegal except where fitted by manufacturers as standard. The Aust authorities (9 authorities) consider them so unsafe that if a vehicle is caught with them fitted the vehicle is ordered off the road immediately.

I think that this is probably a sensible approach.

Whatever you do, if fitting spacers, advise your insurers in advance. If you fail to do so & they find out your insurance might be cancelled immediately.

NJSS

Globe&Laurel wrote:

Gnomad wrote:

I've been thinking of some wheel adapters to run Wrangler wheels on my LR3, so they would kind be like spacers. And why you might ask? 18" rover wheels here are like rocking horse droppings or chicken lips, Wrangler wheels a dime a dozen and 18" tire selection much better. The question might be how wide can one go before things go haywire?
We have no inspections here. Anything goes!

From what has been said here so far, and elsewhere, even an inch each side is going to do damage long term. Wouldn't it be cheaper for you to get some OEM 18s shipped in from the UK? Plenty on eBay here. The cost of shipping would likely outweigh the damage would cost you eventually... Snap them up before the tariffs are levied

I've been lookimg off and on-there are some sellers who are apparently willing to ship here which surely helps. There was a set of Defender take-offs that were mighty tempting!
Not worried about tariffs unles there is trouble repatriating rouge English people, and for sure you can't have Mrs Gnomad back. She ain't going.

Gnomad wrote:

Globe&Laurel wrote:

Gnomad wrote:

I've been thinking of some wheel adapters to run Wrangler wheels on my LR3, so they would kind be like spacers. And why you might ask? 18" rover wheels here are like rocking horse droppings or chicken lips, Wrangler wheels a dime a dozen and 18" tire selection much better. The question might be how wide can one go before things go haywire?
We have no inspections here. Anything goes!

From what has been said here so far, and elsewhere, even an inch each side is going to do damage long term. Wouldn't it be cheaper for you to get some OEM 18s shipped in from the UK? Plenty on eBay here. The cost of shipping would likely outweigh the damage would cost you eventually... Snap them up before the tariffs are levied

I've been lookimg off and on-there are some sellers who are apparently willing to ship here which surely helps. There was a set of Defender take-offs that were mighty tempting!
Not worried about tariffs unles there is trouble repatriating rouge English people, and for sure you can't have Mrs Gnomad back. She ain't going.