So you want to upgrade your wheels for your Next Gen Ranger, Here's some things you should consider.
1. Do you want your Next Gen Ranger to be road legal?
2. Do you want to run flares?
3. Wheel Diameter, do you want an off-road or more road focused set-up?
Legal or not?
When considering wheels for you ranger you will first want to pick a wheel you like. the sizes / offsets that wheel is available in will dictate what modifications you have to do to your next gen ranger to run them.
When staying road legal you will want to stick to 8'+30 offset. In QLD you are only allowed to go up to 50mm wider track width than factory and 25mm rolling diameter increase.
Tyre sizing for stock guards would be 265-285 depending on what width wheel you run. a 9'+30 would need a 265 tyre to be close to the factory guards.
Here's a photo of a next gen ranger with 9'+30 with 285/70 tyres and you can see they sit out of the guards.
If you want to run flares you can go with a +25mm flare for this sort of sizing.
Note that you may need a lift as 285's will slightly scrub at stock height.
Do you want to run flares?
Once you have a lift you can run wider offsets and bigger tyres although this wont be legal unless it is engineerable in your state.
The most common wheel sizes when going wider than this is 9+18 - 9' 0
You WILL require flares at these sizes.
The most common sized flares on the market are 35mm. This will be your dealer option (EGR) flare size. When running EGR / factory flares you can go to 9+10 - 9' 0 relatively comfortably. Here is a 9' 0 offset with a 285/70 Maxxis Razr A/T and EGR flares.
Wheel Diameter
The other wheel / tyre option you have to consider is wheel diameter. If you want your next gen ranger to handle well off-road you will need to pick a smaller diameter such as 17 inch to allow you to run taller tyres with more sidewall. If you want a more road focused set-up you will want to run up to 20 inch rim and lower profile tyre to keep it driving like a car.
There's so many wheel / tyre options out there but hopefully this has given you a good idea for where to start. If you want to view more photos of Next Gen Rangers with different wheel / flare options here is a helpful instagram account with the sizes all listed in the captions:
https://www.instagram.com/next.gen.rangers/
We are also running a limited time offer on the EGR flares if you want to run them on your rig! You wont find a better price on them in Australia and we also have free shipping!
