Originally Posted by
roverp480
I am in the UK so I am not up to date with what is available in the US. All I would say is there are many versions of 16" wheels supplied for Land Rover products over many years since yours was built. . For the 750 x 16 & 235/80 R16 tyre size they need to be 5.5" wide minimum . All wheels originally supplied for Series vehicles require inner tubes as the wheels are not suitable for tubeless radial tyres as they have no humps to retain the tyre if it deflates or with real serious hard cornering. Later Defender wheels were available with humps for radial tubeless tyres . You will see on Rovers North web site the wheels are listed as tubed or tubeless . It is also not recommended to fit tubes to tubeless wheels as the tubes can be stretched as the tyres "jump" over the humps when fitting and subsequently fail when under stress such as taking avoiding action in extremis . . I am sure US based contributions will have more local information.