Wheel Spacers

[dantvrgriff]

Hi,

I noticed on Ebay you can get wheel spacers - could imagine it would look great on the car. Any experience out there - how wide can you go ?

Cheers,

Dan

[Doc Toad]

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[GlynMo]

I'd say don't use them unless you have clearance issues with aftermarket wheels. They put additional stress on the bearings, suspension etc.

[Andav469]

GlynMo said:

I'd say don't use them unless you have clearance issues with aftermarket wheels. They put additional stress on the bearings, suspension etc.

I've been running 12mm hubcentric spacers on my car for the last 2 years and 6k miles, I fitted them for clearance when upgrading the brakes to 324mm discs and Brembo 4 pot calipers, no issues.

Also used them on many a daily driver, if you use quality hubcentrics, there should be no problem, unless you go for a seriously wide track

[GlynMo]

Andav469 said:

GlynMo said:

I'd say don't use them unless you have clearance issues with aftermarket wheels. They put additional stress on the bearings, suspension etc.

I've been running 12mm hubcentric spacers on my car for the last 2 years and 6k miles, I fitted them for clearance when upgrading the brakes to 324mm discs and Brembo 4 pot calipers, no issues.

Also used them on many a daily driver, if you use quality hubcentrics, there should be no problem, unless you go for a seriously wide track

I agree that hubcentric are better than the standard, and I run 6mm spacers on the front of my car as the wheel offset made them necessary, but why place added strain on components just for 'the look'?!

[Andav469]

GlynMo said:

I agree that hubcentric are better than the standard, and I run 6mm spacers on the front of my car as the wheel offset made them necessary, but why place added strain on components just for 'the look'?!

A Chimaera 400 wears 225 section tyres on the rear, a 500 wears 245 section tyres, the wheel bearings are the same.

Also the wheel bearings are taken from a car that had far more weight than the Chimaera/Griffith, so you could argue that the components are already over engineered for the job as it is.

I understand what you are saying, but, unless you want extreme spacers, then, I wouldn't expect that your overloading the bearings

Edited by Andav469 on Tuesday 14th April 22:12

[GlynMo]

Andav469 said:

A Chimaera 400 wears 225 section tyres on the rear, a 500 wears 245 section tyres, the wheel bearings are the same.

Yes, but the extra width isn't all on the 'outside'.

Andav469 said:

Also the wheel bearings are taken from a car that had far more weight than the Chimaera/Griffith, so you could argue that the components are already over engineered for the job as it is.

Fair point

Andav469 said:

I understand what you are saying, but, unless you want extreme spacers, then, I wouldn't expect that your overloading the bearings

I wasn't suggesting an overload, just greater stress = faster wear, especially if the reason for fitting them is purely for how the car looks with them.