16" wheels

[Beddy Lurker Find all posts View Profile Close Beddy]

Anybody fitted 16" wheels, steel or other wise to 120 Prado? Looking to increase tyre options for offroad.

My thoughts are that they don't.

Cheers

Dave.

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16" rims fit fine on the rear, on the front is touch and go. It can / has been done but depending on the rim and the offset grinding of the front calipers may be required. Grinding brake components is not norally looked upon favourably by the authorities.

Plenty of tyre options available in 17" nowadays anyway.

Cheers Andrew

[Beddy Lurker Find all posts View Profile Close Beddy]

Thanks Andrew, I have tried some cruiser split rims, all touch and no go. Is the 120 as close a relation to the FJ cruiser as I have been lead to believe.

Dave.

[groeschel Member Find all posts View Profile Close groeschel]

I am running 16' rim steel from a 90 series GXL.
It was a test to try some mud tires with a second set of rim.
Rear was no problem.
Front was a tight fit, it just cleared on one side but I had to shave a bit of on the other side
Interesting is that there was a difference between right and left wheel (cant recall which had more clearance) but it seems that tolerances are allowing sometimes the use of 16" without grinding the callipers and sometimes not.

But for the sake of offroad capabilities I would have gone for more of grinding in order to have 16" tires.
I find that there is quite an advantage on rough terrain to have tires with taller side walls and more flexibility.
And a bit of polishing of the entire calliper and some calliper paint makes it impossible to spot ;-)

But it works only with steel rims.
I see no way of using 16" allloy rims as they are have thicker walls to compensate for the softer alloy (maybe with monster spacers but the would cause heaps of other issues, legal and structurally)

Regards
Michael

Anybody fitted 16" wheels, steel or other wise to 120 Prado? Looking to increase tyre options for offroad.

My thoughts are that they don't.

Cheers

Dave.

[ScoticusMaximus Member Find all posts View Profile Close ScoticusMaximus]

i found that 16" Dynamic steel wheels did fit, however they were close to the calipers, only 1-2mm of clearance...

[groeschel Member Find all posts View Profile Close groeschel]

i found that 16" Dynamic steel wheels did fit, however they were close to the calipers, only 1-2mm of clearance...

That is roughly the clearance I have as well.
Works without issues since 15k

Regards
Michael

[BIA 88 Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close BIA 88]

i found that 16" Dynamic steel wheels did fit, however they were close to the calipers, only 1-2mm of clearance...

Can you please tell me which offset of 16" dynamic steel rim can fit in please ?

[JGill Member Find all posts View Profile Close JGill]

Hi all,
I would like also like some more info on these wheels.
What size/offset/brand did you run that cleared the caliper?
And Scott, mainly interested in what offset yours were because they looked awesome! and weren't sticking out too far.
Cheers, Josh

[ScoticusMaximus Member Find all posts View Profile Close ScoticusMaximus]

i had 0 offset, because they were for a hilux/4runner.
i did not grind or modify the vehicle to fit them at all