banded steels on a transit anyone?

[Vandalism]

hello, i was chatting with my dad about banded wheels and he said a long time ago he had a problem with an MGA he had, it had big wheels on it and diddnt have power stering so it was difficult to manouver - would this be a problem for a transit mk1/2 LWB or SWB if it had banded wheels and no power steering?

[AlanN]

It depends on how much tyre surface area is on the road, you can still band a wheel a little and have the same tyre with a marginal increase in surface contact. If you where talking 1" plus, you would be adding a larger tyre no doubt, so for a poor steering box, it could get a tad heavy. Or find a very rae power steering box set up £££££££££

[Drizz]

The Red and grey one has standard wheels, banded. Its a local friend of mine...

[pat stevens]

i think it was retro mag around june last year did a feature on a red mk2 van which had a set of standard mk2 wheels banded on the rear looked like they were supposed to be there from ford the van was from ireland if memory serves me right

[pat stevens]

as promised, some pics of all four rims on with the tyres i finally decided on. i think they give the van the finishing touch.











have a few more pics but photobuckets acting up!

this is the van i was on about

[snap-on]

very nice van

[24v]

I also have banded wheels and like the look of them

[AlanN]

Cant wait to get these puppys painted

[Gavin]

how long did you have to wait alan? how wide? look like 10" from here what tyres?
i must get on to james about mine..

[AlanN]

It was a bit of a task, but I wanted James to do them, but there is a forum member who knows him and I eventually got them done for Transitmania, but I didnt have the time to get them done for the show. Some BFG 245/60/14's going on 8" by the way to under my arch

[Vandalism]

theres somone on ebay who placed an ad for banding wheels any size (not the company banded steels but somone else) and when i asked him how much he said £300 for 2 wheels....... i told him what i thought

[AlanN]

Banded steels only wanted £220 with certificate for mine...

[Vandalism]

i told him banded steels do 4 for about £300

[adam 120 ex aa]

Not when finished off like this

nice a mk1 woody cortina with 100e caps

[Gavin]

Banded steels only wanted £220 with certificate for mine...

I thought James did yours?