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13 minutes ago, Eightpot said:

Baring in mind new springs are around £30 each and new tyres are four+ times that, why not just set the springs correctly in the first place?  

NRC9463 rear and NRC9447 front should work well, but do you know what springs you currently have - do they have colour code stripes on?

I couldn’t tell you exactly what springs I have on at the moment but I have done this intentionally as I am limited by my garage door height and wanted larger tyres on the car so I thought that lowering the car and putting larger tyres on it will allow it to fit in the garage but still get the larger tyre. 

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8 hours ago, landroversforever said:

Not at all, if you don’t know you don’t know   we all started somewhere with it!

As for the stiffer springs, you can get stiffer springs than stock without dropping the height. The stock HD springs are a bit stiffer as are the likes of OME stuff if you pick the right part number. Both of those options would likely give you a little lift (over stock) if you’re not running with much/any extra weight. 

The only slight issue is that I used a defender specialist to do the work as I couldn’t justify spending a month without my defender whilst I worked on it here and there as opposed to getting it all done in a day. The only springs they had were a tad shorter but it works out nicely because I wanted beefier wheels anyway but I am limited by the stock height due to having a roof rack and the car only just fitting into my garage with the old springs on.

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17 minutes ago, landroversforever said:

So a 33” tyre will get you about an inch extra height as Western says. But watch out for extra width and offset as that will make it more likely to hit the bulkhead outrigger. 255/85R16 is a nice size that equates to ~33” and doesn’t screw with the gearing too much. It’s also not massively wide which is good. 

Any reason for not putting different springs on again to get it back to standard height? 

The springs I have put on are much stiffer which I prefer a lot more to the softer stock springs and the only stiffer springs I could get were an inch shorter than my previous springs. Thank you for your help.

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11 minutes ago, landroversforever said:

It probably says don’t fit to 16.5” rims as that is or was a common US size. 

Sorry if I’m teaching granny to suck eggs here! Feel free to ignore! Your tyre has 235/85R16 on it which breaks down as follows:
235: tyre width in millimetres
85: tyre sidewall height as a percentage of the width.
R: radial
16: 16” rim. 

Yeah sorry you’re right didn’t look close enough thank you for the advise and apologies for having to explain such simple things I understand the feeling.

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@western @SnaggerI am also more than happy to consider other rim options to accommodate a bigger tyre if need be.

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@landroversforever If I am to be completely honest with myself I won’t be taking this car off the beaten track as much as I might like so it will be primarily for road use. By stock height I was referring to the overall height of the vehicle as the slight lowering of the car has made the car look and feel too low to the ground for my liking so I was hoping/assuming that a wheel with a slightly larger diameter might raise the height of the car slightly. If I’m wrong please let me know. I am also aware that bigger and more heavily grooved tyres will effect the road noise but that doesn’t bother me. If people want a nice quiet and comfortable cockpit environment they don’t buy a defender.

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@Snagger I’m not sure what width they are I’ll have to look into that tomorrow but they are the wheels that come in the 2016 adventure edition defenders. 

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@western I only assumed they were 18’ rims because they are the stock tyres that come with the car from factory and they say do not fit to 16’ rims on the tyre wall but they could be 16’s. Thank you for the help.

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Hi Guys. I’m a complete novice when it comes to tyres and have no clue what I’m looking for. I’ve just changed the springs which has lowered the car by an inch on my adventure 90 and wanted to get a set of tyres that would beef it back up a bit because at the moment it’s looking a bit too small for my liking. I would love a set of bfg’s but I have no clue what to go for. I’m aiming to achieve the same height as stock. I’ve currently got 18’ rims. Any help would be greatly appreciated.