Hi Everyone,

As much as I love the original, steel 15" wheels on my Series 1’s I can’t seem to find any hi-performance summer tires in the right size anymore for a reasonable price; I need to find a larger wheel for the car I’m building now. Don’t want all-season minivan tires and I can’t afford Pirelli’s

I looked at a whole bunch of Jag wheels but there is one that I like that was used on the S-types of the early 2000’s. They look alot like minilites - I think they’re referred to as ‘Spirits’. They’re cheap and plentiful and come in 16" x 7.5"

The problem of course is that they are 5x108 bolt pattern and the XJ’s are 5x120 so I’d need an adapter. They are also from a front drive car so the backset is gonna be a thing but I think the right size adapter will take up alot of the excess space.

I’m wondering if anyone else here has done this with these wheels.

Thanks,

 

Might work well with an adapter if those S-type wheels have and offset in the high 50's to 60's

https://www.ebay.com/itm/5x108-to-5x...!US!-1&vxp=mtr

 

That's exactly the adapter I was looking at icsamerica. Apparently that company will make custom width adapters as well.

The only thing that I wonder about is if using an adapter will cause any sort of substantial weakness. This is not for a race car but I do drive my Jags pretty hard and I live on a mountain so there's alot of twisting and turning (fun). Of all the dozens of cars I've owned I've never had occasion to use an adapter for the wheels so I have zero experience with them.

 

I'm interested to see how this works out. Its a good looking wheel. I agree it would suit the XJ

 

Andy - The Spirit wheels are +60mm and it my Series 1 steel wheels are approx. +35mm. The adapter is 25.4mm thick so it should work barring any issues with the extra 1.5" width of the wheel in the back... It looks like it just might work.

 

I think the problem you will have is the front hub stub axle has nowhere to fit.
As Jag moved from XJ123 to XJ40 to X300 then X308, the stubs got smaller, then disappeared.
An early rim will have a 3 inch protrusion to accommodate the stub.

Rob

 

To each his own, but, I offer the following:


1. Wheel spacers and adapters are thing that must be just right or bad things will happen. In my view, to be avoided.


2. Some time ago, I decided to be realistic. My 4X$ Jeep Grand Cherokee does not need gnarly off road tires. It's original wheel and spare still ride with never having been bolted on to a hub!!! A set of Yokohama touring tires do just fine.


3. When time came to re shoe the Jaguar, I followed the same logic. T rated B.F. Goodrich. I'll never exceed the speed for any stretch. I've pushed in a few turns and it responds just fine. 125 on a Nevada road in the summer, probably not going to happen.


Just my two bits...


Carl

 

S-types are RWD so double check the need for a spacer.

 

Hi Rob - I think you're right. I finally managed to find an image of the inside of the rim and that looks like it's gonna be a problem.

 

Hi Mikey,
Shows what I know about S-types I do know that those wheels have a 60mm offset for some reason though.