Land Rover Series 2a 88: Bonnet Spare Wheel 

Hi Mate, Good video and I run the same anr1534's over here in London. The way I modded the z brackets was to just hammer a short bit of pipe onto the long ends of the Z's. It extends the leg and holds the spare on nicely. I've done thousands of miles around Europe and it has never come loose. Happy Rovering.

Excellent content. Thank you for info.

A great vid again - always look forward to more coming out from you so thanks again! All the same considerations I have to go through over the next little while so great to get another viewpoint. N

I always find the thumbnail picture for this vid arresting! A four axle ,8 wheel drive Landy. WOW

Go for the same size rims all around and modify the bonnet mount to suit. Also I like the seat latch set up, I will do the same on my series 3. Cheers

Gracias por el video.... 👍👍

Great Vid again. Yes the view is limited with the spare wheel on the bonnet, but you get used to. For shure. There are different bonnets on the market. With my military S3 (1977) there is a bonnet with a hollow, that means that the spare wheel is located a couple of inches lower, which could have an effect for a better sight....Furthermore it looks like that there a acouple of different fixing variants on the market. but no informations about partnumbers or how to asseble them are to find......If you like I cant send you some pictures of my parts an how the sight is "limited" with the spare wheel. By the way I'm using a 7,5x16 spare with "huge" BF Goodrich Mud terrain. But again it's not that worse with the restrictet view.

Hi mate I've used swb landys for many years in rural and urban areas apart from really heavy duty 4 x 4 wheeldriving ie.rocky terrain or timbered tracks no wheel on bonnet is best for visability , that's using 7.50 rag tyres on 109 rims ,in general I would say the all round visability of swb with drivers cab is second to none and makes up for the little bit you lose at the front with tyre on the bonnet R.

Allright no 1

The first time I drove my 88" I was conscious of the spare for about 2 minutes and after that I forgot it was there. I use 750s with very little offset, although my 88 came with 205s from new, so the speedo runs a little slow.

You may be able to get the original spare and put similar diameter tyres on it, so you don't loose additional visibility and can use the existing mounts. And when you need to use it its not a big issue as its only a spare.

"In the interest of tyre mileage and even wear, it is recommended that the wheels are changed round every 3000 miles (5000 Km) as follows: Spare to left-hand front; left-hand front to left-hand rear; left-hand rear to right-hand front; right-hand front to right-hand rear and right-hand rear to spare." Taken from my 1965 service manual. I always figured some sort of tool carrier would be great to have on the bonnet instead of a tyre.

Hello sir, I'm running 16 inch Land Rover standard steel rims with 750/16s and I'm curios and whether fitting a tyre onto the bonnet will make the bonnet weak in any way as that is what I was told. What's your opinion? Thanks.