Then it was time for proper shoes.
It was a very a tough tough decision, spent many months considering different tyre and wheel combinations.
I wanted rims with a reasonable offset, but wanted to keep the genuine LR look. Wolfs are, IMO, the prettiest of them all and can fit (with some good faith) up to a 285 tyre. With spacers they get equivalent to a -10mm offset, so thats about what I wanted. Also, being a standard rim (instead of some obscure sourced modulares with a specific offset) they're easy to replace.
On tyres, I wanted height, but had little interest in width. Checked the 285/75R16s but the height advantage to the 235/85R16 seemed small. Was even considering 35"s, but they were too wide. Also, measuring some units in the real world, they were barely 34" tall, so hard to justify the investment and disadvantages.
I'd go for 8.25R16 or 9.00R16s, but theyr are too rare and expensive.
Ended up choosing 255/85R16, specifically the BFGs KM2, as they where the cheapest ones.
Pros
- narrowish
- not too expensive
- not too punitive to stock drivetrain
- keeps the LR look while improving performance
- tall
Off the car, at 2.5Bar on the Wolf rims, my units measured 33,5" tall. Most 35s I measured were about 34,2" or so, so we are talking about a 0,7" diameter difference here.
Old vs new
Please ignore the roof rack, it was a cheap Bearmach one I got to take some measurements to build a custom one (and yes, that bumper is "somewhat bent")
The Disco keeps getting smaller