Rubicon Wheels/Tires for sale!

jmichaelsjeep · **Posted:** Tue Mar 16, 2010 9:03 am

They aren't mine and they are nobody's that I know, just happend to see them on CL searching for stuff, thought someone else might be interested. I don't know if they are still available or not. Just figured I'd pass it along.

http://madison.craigslist.org/pts/1616773666.html

DirtyKK · **Posted:** Tue Mar 16, 2010 9:11 am

the new 17" model is from the 07-newer rubicon and are a 5x5 bolt pattern so they will not work on the liberty. ive never seen rubicon wheels with those shotty tires either

ryanee182 · **Posted:** Tue Mar 16, 2010 9:13 am

These are 17" with 5 on 5 bolt pattern. We need 5 on 4.5.

jmichaelsjeep · **Posted:** Tue Mar 16, 2010 9:40 am

You can always use a wheel spacer to convert it to the hub pattern, besides, you'd probably want to put different tires on these anyway which might require a wheel spacer. We can think outside the box can't we? I agree the tires are crappy, but the wheels aren't.

DirtyKK · **Posted:** Tue Mar 16, 2010 10:01 am

wheels spacers would make these stick out entirely too far and rub like an SOB

ryanee182 · **Posted:** Tue Mar 16, 2010 1:56 pm

....and you can find the 17" Moabs everywhere! $475 is a bit high for these common wheels, especially since wheel adapters are also needed. If they were the harder to find 16" wheels, it would be a deal!

InCommando · **Posted:** Wed Mar 17, 2010 11:47 am

Thinking outside the box is one thing, throwing away $200 on adapters is another.

Those are most likely off of a Sahara as they use the same rims and the Shahara had the crappy SR-A's. Me thinks the seller doth lie.

jmichaelsjeep · **Posted:** Wed Mar 17, 2010 12:04 pm

InCommando,
Oh, okay. Well then I guess it is a mute point. I thought that might be the case since the tires aren't what usually come with a Rubicon, thanks for the info.

As far as the fitting of these, help me out with this one. If you currently have 16" rims and 31" tires that are either currently or not currently using a wheel spacer. If you go up to a 17" rim, wouldn't you just keep the overall outside diameter of the tire the same and your interior opening just be an inch bigger to compensate for the difference so your overall dimension doesn't change. Obviously this means new tires, but for some, new tires is on the list anyway. Isn't that why they have different size interior and exterior dimensions of tires? Then with or without a spacer, shouldn't it fit the same as the previously mentioned setup? I don't get where the rubbing would occur if this is the process? Either way I was thinking use with the typical 2-1/2" lift.

As far as cost goes, based on what I have seen around here, most of the Rubicon rims alone go for between 6-800 and $1000 thus why I thought this was a better deal. If you can get them for cheaper somewhere else, fine. I just thought I'd share an ad, in fact there were a couple others on Madison CL as well.

tommudd · **Posted:** Wed Mar 17, 2010 12:10 pm

What messes you up on using those wheels is the back spacing, adding spacers will shove the tire/ wheel out that much more and then you'll be tearing off flares, hitting the wheelwells more etc. Has nothing to do really on size if you keep the same overall diameter.
Just not worth it.
Get the older style Moabs. I grabbed a set of 5 , sold the new spare and two used ones and have less than one pair of spacers in them
For reference here are mine stuffed, can you imagine having a tire/wheel combo sticking out an inch and a half more...... NO MORE FLARE!!!

InCommando · **Posted:** Wed Mar 17, 2010 2:32 pm

Exactly as Tom said. In simple terms, the wheel well is designed to accept the tire in a certain place. Moving the maximum diameter point in or out is what makes the interference problems get worse.

Unfortunately most people do not consider the SR-A's to be worth a darn on anything but dry pavement, even though they seem to wear pretty well. That drops the value of the tires to anyone, which ups the relative cost of the rims. Add in the spacers and you are back to TJ Moab rim price range.

jmichaelsjeep · **Posted:** Mon Mar 22, 2010 10:58 pm

Okay, well that makes sense. I didn't realize the new rims had a different back spacing.

Well just forget I mentioned them then :roll:

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