Don’t do spacers I’m pretty sure your insurance company won’t cover it on such a heavy car. I would suggest if you want an aggressive stance buy wheels with a different offset.

Either option you need to declare to insurance otherwise your not covered.

Yes, spacers would be considered a modification and need to be declared.

Just more of a general query..... Doesn’t adding spacers put more load on the wheel bearings due to extra width/leverage or have things moved on from the days of the Ford Cortina?

Just thinking of the physics rather than anything else specific to RR. 2011 Range Rover Vogue SE 4.4 TDV8

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2003 Range Rover Vogue TD6
1999 Discovery Td5 ES
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1992 Range Rover 3.9 Efi Vogue
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1989 Ford Sierra XR4x4 2.9i
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You can achieve the same look without spacers by changing the wheels to RRS 20 inch Stormers as they are an inch wider I believe and fit straight on. The tyre size needs to be increased in profile from 275/40/20 to 275/45/20 and they then have the same rolling radius as the original 255/50/20.

mjdronfield wrote:

Just more of a general query..... Doesn’t adding spacers put more load on the wheel bearings due to extra width/leverage or have things moved on from the days of the Ford Cortina?

Just thinking of the physics rather than anything else specific to RR.

Hi Paul, I agree with you one hundred percent about the life of the suspension joints and bushes. My thoughts are that they can't be made too stiff [bushes] because of the large articulation they can go through when off road. Far more movement than a conventional car even though most of our cars never see that movement in normal use. I was amazed how much the suspension 'hung' the first time I jacked my car up to remove a wheel. I had to get a taller jack. Lol.