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We started chatting about picking up wheels from the US. Basically what you pay $1500 for here you can buy in the US for $500 and ship sea freight for $100 rims only or $140 rims & tyres just as long as you are prepared to wait 6 to 8 weeks before you collect your goods at your nearest port.

To start I was looking at wheels here:
Steve's Wheels items - Get great deals on items on eBay Stores!

The Coopers Tyres site has some good info on tyre sizes and rim widths:
Cooper Tires - Tyres

Remember the load index for Ftruck tyres has to be a min of 120.

I want to get some good 4WD rims and tyres. It seems the best tyres for 4WDing over rough and rocks are ones with the highest side wall height. Consequently I'm looking at 285/75 16's and, so as not to expose the rims to rock strikes, mount them on 8" width rims. Reg pointed out that offset zero with a backspacing of 4.5 inches was his choice.

Rim offsets - the lower the number the more radical the rim. The lowest offset I've seen is on my American Racing 20x9" rims - they are -12. On them I'm running Cooper HT 305/50 20s, the only low profile tyre around with a 120 load index! Rego told me the wheels were borderline as they'd increased the vehicle track by 1" and >1" is illegal.
See here for Cooper HT: http://www.coopertires.com.au/index....yres&tyre_id=5