Perks and downfalls of lifting a Range Rover classic

[Keatonpretzle]

I have a 1990 Range Rover county, and I'm looking at getting 30mm spacers to give the car a wider stance, and I'm looking at getting a 40mm Britparts lift kit, and some all terrain tires. I drive about 70 miles a day at speeds up to 75mph and I was wondering if lifting my rover would effect the wear on certain parts of the car, and if I can keep driving at these speeds, and I was wondering if there is any other parts I need to get if I do end up lifting my rover.

(I could also use a good tire recommendation)

Thanks,

Keaton

[Bowie69]

Why lift it?

[Davo]

Yes, why? I've found these cars to be so good at what they were meant for that a lot of modifications tend to make them too specialised at the expense of something else.

[geoffbeaumont]

Lifting a car is done to increase clearance when off-roading - but there's a reason your Range Rover wasn't built with that much in the first place; the Range Rover is a compromise between on and off road driving (it's pretty good at both). The more the car is lifted the worse it's road handling becomes. It sounds like you use your car mostly (only?) on the road, so you'll be making it horrible for exactly the sort of driving you do. And yes, you probably will need to slow down a bit as the raised centre of gravity and increased suspension travel will make a roll over a good deal more likely.

All terrain tyres will be fine (I assume you're running road only tyres at the moment?), but if you mean mud tyres (more agressive tread than all terrains) then that comes with a handling, noise and fuel consumption penalty you might find hard to live with doing the miles you are.

Spacers - no idea. Only heard of them being used to gain adequate clearances on fairly specialised off-road builds, so not sure what wear issues you might see with high speed use.

[Chicken Drumstick]

I can understand lifting it from a visuals point of view. But it'll not do it any favours on road. Even more so the way you plan to do it. My advice would be to rear up on suspension. There are simply better ways sometimes.

you can still fit chunkier tyres on a stock RRC. A lift is not needed.

My old 3.5 EFI on some MT's.