Hey guys, was looking for wheels for my jeep and thought id ask some fellow alaskans their opinion and input as im not sure what i want.

I was looking at pro comps 7189's
http://www.4wd.com/productdetails.aspx?partId=10157
with or without that machined lip but im not sold on anything as of yet. here is a pic of my jeep at bottom.

My plan is wheels, 35's and teraflex 3 inch with full flex arms.

 

Nice Jeep mert I like those rims but you sure you want to go with an 18"? Tires are gonna be expensive at the size. You getting those local or having a package deal shipped up?

 

Yeah........remember that shipping will eat you/us alive. If at all possible try and find something you like local. There were all kinds of tires and wheels I wanted looking at catalogs, but wasn't about to pay damn near twice as much to get them up here. I settled on some that I liked, both wheels AND tires, and drove to Anchorage to buy them. If you can't find any in Juneau, you might even save a little to have some shipped down from Anchortown. I just paid damn near $30. for a little box that weighed 7 pounds from "Quadrabentmeover.com"......lol
Good Luck.....

 

Also remember that there are companies that will work with a freight shipper and you can save a ton. I can't remember if it's been mentioned but tonk got front and rear bumpers and rock sliders from LoD shipped through Freight Forwarders. Something like 600lbs of steel shipped to port for $170.

I talked with Discount Tire on here a little while back about prices on 5 BFG KM2s and it'd be crazy to pass the deal up if/when the time comes to do a package tire/rim combo and have it shipped. The closest I came to his prices was on base and it was $80 more PER tire. I won't even tell you what the local businesses had in store for my cornhole on tire prices.

So I would suggest find what you like, scope out your area and then talk to some online places.

 

yea, i can have stuff shipped to AML in seattle and from Seattle on a barge up to juneau, thats only like $25 per 100lbs. i all ready have them set up.

i was actually thinking 17s and that was the first link i came across, sorry for the confusion. as for local? all we have is a les schwab for wheels and tires. and what they have is really slim.

 

mert is living in the capital of God's country and it's the size of....Nome?

 

hey, not here by choice, last time i listen to a girl. thats also how i ended up with a auto :( but i got to say, one a nice day, does make it worth while to be here. btw my name is Justin

 

Hey Justin, Joe here and that's why we got the Alaska BS thread. Feel free to vent in there about how you got here, plans are, what not. shit not to derail this one about your wheels gimme a minute and I'll head over there and go first