As I mentioned before ... you need body lift to fit those biger tires. As you can read at many places on the internet, you need to inches of lift to be able to fit 31 x 10.5 x 15 tires ... almost true ;)
Well they fit just fine in the wheel well ... the problem is with tight turns. With an agressive tread like on these Kumho KL71 MT tires, they start grabbing the lower control arms making something like a "K"-turn turn into a 10x K-turn since you are able to turn the wheels just part of the way. To overcome this, there are two solutions:
1. change the wheels to one's with wider spacing ('ET' factor of around -20) - I suspect that people writing on the internet that there were no problems with installing tires of this size probably might have already such wider spaced wheels ...although this causes another problem (more on that in the next post)
2. the other one is to mount special 1" (or wider) spacers, to move the wheels outward.
Since I spoted innexpensive spacers (~$55 for a complete set of German factory made 1" spacers - i.e. not some cheep aluminum DIY job) on one of the Polish auction sites, I swipped them and installed them today.
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