Range Rover

AFAIK they will if you *don't* have free-wheeling hubs.

They should physically fit providing you don't have FWH and don't want to use the centre caps (the oil caps stick through the hole where the cap goes).

More important though are the wheel studs, the chances are that on a Series motor it will not have the correct studs for the alloy wheel nuts. Fitting the alloy wheel nuts to the wrong studs WILL cause the nuts to come loose and, eventually, the wheels to fall off. Studs suitable for alloy wheels should have a slot on the end of the stud.

cheers

Dave W.

Hello Dave, just out of interest, do you know why this happens and what the slot is for? It's not something I've heard of before and as a friend's Discovery recently lost a wheel while he was moving it's something that I ought to chase up with him.

I'd have expected a Discovery to have the correct wheel studs from the factory so I doubt it's down to the studs.

AFAICR the alloy compatible studs are longer. The material they use for the nuts is comparitively soft compared to steel nuts and so requires a longer thread contact area. On later vehicles you pretty much expect the studs to be long enough but on the leaf sprung models (and some earlier coil sprung) there's no guarantee.

My early RR axles (1980) were shipped with Rostyle steel wheels. All except one of the studs don't have slots on them, I assume the one that does was replaced at some time in the past.

I have seen all this written down in a LR manual somewhere but can't remember where :-)

cheers

Dave W.