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mate if you wanna do a bit of offroading i would strongly suggest getting sunnies! they just work soo well...and theyre cheap if your runnig low pressure and ding them, or as you said, if you scratch them its no big deal

I hear what ya sayin Dan... I had sunnies on my last hilux and never had a drama with them I think I was just lookin for the bling factor :p plus there only half the price of alloys and if i don't like I can always change them out... Option options options lol

Yeh Kirk I am now running a set of MIckey Thompson Side Bitters they look great but in 2 trips out Ive grounded the paint of a couple of them, only the size of a 10c peice but noticable.
If or when I do it again Id go the steel a lot cheaper hard to argue with. In saying that a lot of off roading I do is on rock so if your just doing Stockton mainly go the alloys.

if it was me picking rims in go to gu patrol steelys perfect offset and look sick painted black

Kyle.. I only get to Stockton once every now n then I'm usually out n about the 4wd tracks puttin it out through it paces, havnt been game enough lately with the cheese cutters on it now.

Dermy.. I havnt even looked at the pootrol rims might have to have a look tonight when I get home.

Cheers for your input fellas

BAT091 wrote:Kyle.. I only get to Stockton once every now n then I'm usually out n about the 4wd tracks puttin it out through it paces, havnt been game enough lately with the cheese cutters on it now.

Dermy.. I havnt even looked at the pootrol rims might have to have a look tonight when I get home.

Cheers for your input fellas

Hey Kirk if you want to see pics of GU Patrol steelies painted Matt Black check out my build thread.

Here's a pic of my 16x8 black sunnies wrapped in 265/75s so uv got something to compare to

Cheers fellas...

alrighty so ive had a few days to do some work on the lux...

replace the 2inch coils with ironman heavy duty 3inch
replace all the rear bushes and fit greasable shackles and pins
fit 1.5inch raising blocks to the rear for the time being
a set of 16x8 allied tomahawaks wrapped in 265/75 mickey thompson atz 4ribs
fit the led interior light
and give it a bath lol

all in all im pretty wrapped happy with the end result

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very nice mate...good suspension and wheel tyre combo, sits very nice

Love the the look of the tomahawaks, very nice mate

Thanks fellas... Was pretty skeptical of the tomahawks at the start but bit the bullet n pretty happy I did

neat as Kirk, looks real nice without the rollbar and with the new rims/springs/tyres.

ps- how do you find the ironman snorkle? A mate looked at one and said it looked and felt "cheap" and didnt fit as well, so he went the Safari...

tristan.robinson wrote:ps- how do you find the ironman snorkle? A mate looked at one and said it looked and felt "cheap" and didnt fit as well, so he went the Safari...

Havnt had a drama with it bud.. Fitted up well, nice and sturdy and does what its suppose to do lol.. No complaints here

i also love the look of the tomahawks. good choice mate.

Cheers ben

oooooooo very nice great tyre and rim combo

Couple of things happened over the past week..

Fitted a l.e.d reverse light next to my number plate using the the old switch that use to power the lights under my rollbar, removed the dogs*#t sidesteps and changed out the 1.5" leaf blocks to 1" to compensate the springs settling...

Also a pic next to the stock nav at work, next to the inlaws new lux n before headin off last weekend up the myall lakes...

Should also mention had probably one of the scariest moments up the beach at myall lakes a few weeks ago.. Driving along the beach and hit a soft spot and sunk the big girl to the sills, soon enough the water was lappin under the car n I was carrot close to makin that dreaded phone call to the insurance company.. But we dug like crazy n used logs as maxi tracks n luckily enough I was out.. Pretty scary