Wheel Spacers

Wheel Spacers

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pb450

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1,301 posts

159 months

Sunday 20th July 2014
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Does anyone know where I can find a couple of 4mm wheel spacers to fit my Chimaera front hubsplease. (What are the hubs from? Perhaps this will aid my search, which hasn't turned up much so far.)

phillpot

17,105 posts

182 months

Sunday 20th July 2014
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"Everyone" knows they're Ford Sierra smile



Spacers that thin will usually be "universal fit"......


Couldn't find 4mm but here's some 6mm or 5mm or 3mm


The "Car Builder" ones are ok I guess but I prefer the more solid type from "Rally Design"


Your original wheel studs are probably long enough to take a 3 or 4mm spacer but you may need to look into longer studs if going much thicker?

ETA found you some 4mm





Edited by phillpot on Sunday 20th July 07:02

QBee

20,906 posts

143 months

Sunday 20th July 2014
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Do you mean between hub and wheel? You will find 5mm spacers as stock in most decent independent motor stores. They come as a multifit, lots of slots and holes.

pb450

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1,301 posts

159 months

Sunday 20th July 2014
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Thanks very much guys. I do indeed mean between wheel and hub and so phillpot's link is perfect. I also figured that 4mm was pretty much the limit with the standard studs, together with my specialist who 'diagnosed' the same. This will bring the offset pretty much back to standard for my my RS Diamond Cuts. smile

QBee

20,906 posts

143 months

Sunday 20th July 2014
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pb450 said:
Thanks very much guys. I do indeed mean between wheel and hub and so phillpot's link is perfect. I also figured that 4mm was pretty much the limit with the standard studs, together with my specialist who 'diagnosed' the same. This will bring the offset pretty much back to standard for my my RS Diamond Cuts. smile
For the record, 5 mm's ok, 7 is too thick for standard wheel studs. It's not difficult to fit longer ones. Over 10 mm spacers it's wise to use hub-centric spacers to keep everything in balance.

5 mm spacers are handy for getting Ford fit wheels to fit a TVR.

s p a c e m a n

10,753 posts

147 months

Sunday 20th July 2014
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yes

4x108 hubcentric ones with a 65mm centre bore are what you want, hubcentric ones have a lip on the centre bore as this is what holds the weight of the car. You shouldn't use the cheap flat ones as this means that the studs are taking the weight of the car, which they're not designed to do.

Hubcentric on the left..



Edited by s p a c e m a n on Sunday 20th July 11:46

pb450

Original Poster:

1,301 posts

159 months

Sunday 20th July 2014
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s p a c e m a n said:
yes

4x108 hubcentric ones with a 65mm centre bore are what you want, hubcentric ones have a lip on the centre bore as this is what holds the weight of the car. You shouldn't use the cheap flat ones as this means that the studs are taking the weight of the car, which they're not designed to do.

Hubcentric on the left..



Edited by s p a c e m a n on Sunday 20th July 11:46
Do you have a link please?

s p a c e m a n

10,753 posts

147 months

Sunday 20th July 2014
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pb450 said:
Do you have a link please?
I can't find any 5mm hubcentric ones on ebay, probably due to what Qbee says. I guess the lip on the hub for the centre bore is wide enough to compensate for a 5mm spacer. So I would buy these for 5mm, as the cheap ones with the slots on may throw the balancing out a bit..

2 X 5MM 4X108 HUBCENTRIC ALLOY WHEEL SPACERS FIT FORD FIESTA MK6 ST 05>08

If you want to go bigger mteconline sell the best quality cheap kits in different sizes that I could find, I have them on mine. The studs are simple to change..

Ford Hubcentric 12mm wheel spacers & Longer Studs 4x108 63.4CB

pb450

Original Poster:

1,301 posts

159 months

Sunday 20th July 2014
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Thanks for this. smile

Rib

2,548 posts

188 months

Sunday 20th July 2014
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I have some 10mm hub centric ones that I bought for my old wheels, never got round to fitting them if your interested

pb450

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1,301 posts

159 months

Sunday 20th July 2014
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Thanks for the offer. Not sure if I should be going this wide. Do you have the longer studs with the spacers?

Rib

2,548 posts

188 months

Sunday 20th July 2014
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Yes I'm sure I do

pb450

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159 months

Sunday 20th July 2014
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Jon, YHM.

SILICONEKIDOBHP

14,997 posts

230 months

Sunday 20th July 2014
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Is 5mm enough to worry about ? wider tyres and rim width can compensate a measaly 5mm. You don`t need hub centric with a 5mm spacer ,there is enough left on the hub .

TPI are good quality . You just need a centre bore of 63,4mm for a snug fit .

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2-X-5MM-4X108-HUBCENTRIC...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TPI-WHEEL-SPACERS-SHIMS-...
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Edited by SILICONEKIDOBHP on Sunday 20th July 22:33


Edited by SILICONEKIDOBHP on Sunday 20th July 22:39

snorky

2,322 posts

250 months

Monday 21st July 2014
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it's wise to use hub-centric spacers

+1
these make a terrific difference to my wheels

Rib

2,548 posts

188 months

Monday 21st July 2014
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I don't get how you can have a hub centric spacer smaller than 10mm without increasing the size of the centre bore, otherwise the spacer won't sit against the hub? Maybe I'm being an idiot?

phillpot

17,105 posts

182 months

Monday 21st July 2014
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Rib said:
I don't get how you can have a hub centric spacer smaller than 10mm without increasing the size of the centre bore, otherwise the spacer won't sit against the hub?
My thoughts entirely, even at around 10mm I imagine there would be very little metal between the main spacer bit and the hub centric bit....if you know what I mean?

QBee

20,906 posts

143 months

Monday 21st July 2014
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phillpot said:
Rib said:
I don't get how you can have a hub centric spacer smaller than 10mm without increasing the size of the centre bore, otherwise the spacer won't sit against the hub?
My thoughts entirely, even at around 10mm I imagine there would be very little metal between the main spacer bit and the hub centric bit....if you know what I mean?
When I was looking for spacers I may not have searched far enough.....but I found a real gap between 10mm (which i consider to be the thickest you can go with standard spacers, and 20mm, when the hub-centric ones start.

If there is such a thing as a 10-13mm hub-centric spacer I would be interested

Rib

2,548 posts

188 months

Monday 21st July 2014
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I spent a long time looking for 10-12mm when I had my AZEV alloys and finally found some, they wernt cheap compared to many other spacers but when I dig out the info for the OP I will let you know Anthony, they are very nicely made and are the thinnest you could go for hubcentric.

QBee

20,906 posts

143 months

Monday 21st July 2014
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Rib said:
I spent a long time looking for 10-12mm when I had my AZEV alloys and finally found some, they wernt cheap compared to many other spacers but when I dig out the info for the OP I will let you know Anthony, they are very nicely made and are the thinnest you could go for hubcentric.
Thanks Jony. My 17 inch wheels are ET38 (Ford fit), so a 12 mm spacer will bring the fronts out nicely to ET26 (standard is 25). My driving isn't millimetre precise (as you know!!) so that will do for me.
I presently run on 5mm spacers all round, which makes the rears correct at ET33, but the fronts wrong also at ET33 (except for very late cars)