Wheels & Tires recommendations?

[Doug Punches]

I'm sure that this has been asked before, and yes, I know how to use the "SEARCH" button.

I've owned tons of Jeeps in the past, including an old Gladiator truck. I have a stock 2023 Overland that I just purchased. Tires and wheels on my stock unit just don't look right. I had big tires and wheels on my previous Jeeps, but they spent a ton of time off-road. I want bigger tires and wheels. It's for looks only, because it will seldom go off-road.

I don't want a ton of highway noise, because it's my daily driver. I'd like to keep an old-school look, and I'll probably powder coat the wheels to match my Jeep. I'd like some advice on wheel size, Tires, and a small lift if needed.

Thanks in advance.

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[DylanM]

To have a better chance of getting useful advice, you should answer a few questions:
You want bigger tires and wheels for looks only. How big are we talking?
You'd like to keep an old school look. What do you consider to be old school?
How much highway noise will you tolerate?
Since your list of wants is almost guaranteed to have several conflicting qualities, what do you prioritize as being most to least important in what you're looking for?

Using your old school look as an example, what I would consider old school would be some knobby bias ply tires on white wagon wheels. Wheels were generally 15 inch and the tires tall and skinny, with a diameter more than 31 inches being considered pretty big. This largely flies in the face of your other wants in that those old school tires were quite noisy, and neither they nor the wheels are bigger than what you already have.

 

[RHINO79]

With 3.73 gearing 32 or 33 max.

 

[Josh Sweeney]

I'm sure that this has been asked before, and yes, I know how to use the "SEARCH" button.

I've owned tons of Jeeps in the past, including an old Gladiator truck. I have a stock 2023 Overland that I just purchased. Tires and wheels on my stock unit just don't look right. I had big tires and wheels on my previous Jeeps, but they spent a ton of time off-road. I want bigger tires and wheels. It's for looks only, because it will seldom go off-road.

I don't want a ton of highway noise, because it's my daily driver. I'd like to keep an old-school look, and I'll probably powder coat the wheels to match my Jeep. I'd like some advice on wheel size, Tires, and a small lift if needed.

Thanks in advance.

I'm sure that this has been asked before, and yes, I know how to use the "SEARCH" button.

I've owned tons of Jeeps in the past, including an old Gladiator truck. I have a stock 2023 Overland that I just purchased. Tires and wheels on my stock unit just don't look right. I had big tires and wheels on my previous Jeeps, but they spent a ton of time off-road. I want bigger tires and wheels. It's for looks only, because it will seldom go off-road.

I don't want a ton of highway noise, because it's my daily driver. I'd like to keep an old-school look, and I'll probably powder coat the wheels to match my Jeep. I'd like some advice on wheel size, Tires, and a small lift if needed.

Thanks in advance.

The tire, wheel, and possible lift question is a giant can of worms that can have a lot of back and forth. Just a quick thought and a short background. I try to set everything up for function with very little thought on appearance. I run a small lift and skinny tires that allow room for tire chains. If I was just going for looks and not worried about flexing clearance or flinging rocks and mud. I would run 35" BFG KO2 or KO3. 0 to +25mm 9" wide wheels. The all terrains will have good traction in most environments, while not being loud. The BFG has nice sidewall traction that gives the tires an offroad/ tough appearance (and still function) I think the 35x11.50R27 KO3 is coming out this January. They will fill the fender well good for looks, but would be tight for 4x use. With a little offset on the wheels, I don't think you'd get much rubbing.

 

[Doug Punches]

Thanks for replying. By "old school" I mean Civilian Wheels from the 1940's-1960's. But, I want to wrap them in a modern tire. Noise? Not crazy, just where I can hear the radio. 31" is fine with me. I want something with a similar "look" but with modern tires.

 

[NC_Overland]

I'm sure that this has been asked before, and yes, I know how to use the "SEARCH" button.

I've owned tons of Jeeps in the past, including an old Gladiator truck. I have a stock 2023 Overland that I just purchased. Tires and wheels on my stock unit just don't look right. I had big tires and wheels on my previous Jeeps, but they spent a ton of time off-road. I want bigger tires and wheels. It's for looks only, because it will seldom go off-road.

I don't want a ton of highway noise, because it's my daily driver. I'd like to keep an old-school look, and I'll probably powder coat the wheels to match my Jeep. I'd like some advice on wheel size, Tires, and a small lift if needed.

Thanks in advance.

The overland wheels look surprisingly good with larger, more aggressive tires. I did a 285/70/18 and it clears no problem, but I also have a rubicon launch edition (stiffest rubicon springs available at the time) take off suspension on it, which raised the front over an inch. I’m pretty sure that tire size would clear on a stock overland suspension, it definitely would if you didn’t off-road it, but you could absolutely do 275/70/18 and still flex it out off-road.

 

[Doug Punches]

Thanks!

 

[AustyPosty]

You could get a complete set of the steel spare wheels, those look pretty classic. There’s also the Fifteen52 Analog Wheels which are aluminum but mimic old steelie design.

 

[Josh Sweeney]

Thanks for replying. By "old school" I mean Civilian Wheels from the 1940's-1960's. But, I want to wrap them in a modern tire. Noise? Not crazy, just where I can hear the radio. 31" is fine with me. I want something with a similar "look" but with modern tires.

I don't think anything says "modern old school" like a BFG M/T or maybe Interco.

 

[Wheelin98TJ]

I don't think anything says "modern old school" like a BFG M/T or maybe Interco.

If Interco says that, you'd never hear it over the tire noise.

 

[NC_Overland]

If Interco says that, you'd never hear it over the tire noise.

Yeah, they look sweet, but I’d hate them on a DD. The worst I ever had were the OEM Rubicon specific BFG M/Ts on my JKU Rubicon. I got used to how bad they were in the rain and that I had to rotate them every 5k miles, but when I had my first winter in CO, they were downright scary on snow packed roads. I had to swap them out immediately for some Duratracs. That’s what everyone in CO ran then (15 yrs ago). It was a complete 180 transformation. They were great in the snow. I learned about the importance of siping that day.

 

[Josh Sweeney]

If Interco says that, you'd never hear it over the tire noise.

True true.

 

[Commodus]

You would be amazed how much a wheel can change the look of a tire on the vehicle I have a rubicon and went with Goodyear 295/70r17 on a 9 inch wide wheel with 0 offset which gives me a little bit of poke and does not look to much For your setup I would run 285/70r17 and probably Falcon just because they are a quite tire

 

[DirkG]

Thanks for replying. By "old school" I mean Civilian Wheels from the 1940's-1960's. But, I want to wrap them in a modern tire. Noise? Not crazy, just where I can hear the radio. 31" is fine with me. I want something with a similar "look" but with modern tires.

After seeing your post, I would go either Fifteen52 Analog wheels...

OR...

Black Rhino Solids...

 

[Josh Sweeney]

After seeing your post, I would go either Fifteen52 Analog wheels...

OR...

Black Rhino Solids...

Good call! The Black Rhino Solid wheels look amazing. I really wanted a set but they don't make them in the specs I wanted.

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