3000m/Taimar Standard wheel backspace
Discussion
Can anyone tell me:
1. What is the backspace on the standard 14" wheels (from hub mounting flange to inner edge of rim lip)?
2. Has anyone fitted Compomotive ML1560 15" x 6" wheels, if so did you fit spacers to the fron or rear wheels and if se what thickness?
I read somewhere backsapce should be 3" front and 3.5" on the rear. I have some borrowed ML1560s on the car at the moment and the backspace is about 3 3/4" on the front which makes the inner rim edge about 1/8" away from the end of the upper wishbone with the camber adjustment slots if the camber was set to maximum negative, which looks far too close to me!
Will stick a picture up tonight to illustrate.
1. What is the backspace on the standard 14" wheels (from hub mounting flange to inner edge of rim lip)?
2. Has anyone fitted Compomotive ML1560 15" x 6" wheels, if so did you fit spacers to the fron or rear wheels and if se what thickness?
I read somewhere backsapce should be 3" front and 3.5" on the rear. I have some borrowed ML1560s on the car at the moment and the backspace is about 3 3/4" on the front which makes the inner rim edge about 1/8" away from the end of the upper wishbone with the camber adjustment slots if the camber was set to maximum negative, which looks far too close to me!
Will stick a picture up tonight to illustrate.
Erich Stahler said:
Can anyone tell me:
1. What is the backspace on the standard 14" wheels (from hub mounting flange to inner edge of rim lip)?
2. Has anyone fitted Compomotive ML1560 15" x 6" wheels, if so did you fit spacers to the fron or rear wheels and if se what thickness?
I read somewhere backsapce should be 3" front and 3.5" on the rear. I have some borrowed ML1560s on the car at the moment and the backspace is about 3 3/4" on the front which makes the inner rim edge about 1/8" away from the end of the upper wishbone with the camber adjustment slots if the camber was set to maximum negative, which looks far too close to me!
Will stick a picture up tonight to illustrate.
1. What is the backspace on the standard 14" wheels (from hub mounting flange to inner edge of rim lip)?
2. Has anyone fitted Compomotive ML1560 15" x 6" wheels, if so did you fit spacers to the fron or rear wheels and if se what thickness?
I read somewhere backsapce should be 3" front and 3.5" on the rear. I have some borrowed ML1560s on the car at the moment and the backspace is about 3 3/4" on the front which makes the inner rim edge about 1/8" away from the end of the upper wishbone with the camber adjustment slots if the camber was set to maximum negative, which looks far too close to me!
Will stick a picture up tonight to illustrate.

1/. By my calcs it would be 78mm: http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
2/. 20mm spacers then. Does not sound good. Why not go for 16" as per the other thread?
2/. 20mm spacers then. Does not sound good. Why not go for 16" as per the other thread?
youngnick said:
I'm running ML1570s without spacers, the receipt indicates an Et-12
Alan
Ah, that sounds promising, so your profile picture of an 'M' is the car with the ML1570s?Alan
Edited by youngnick on Tuesday 18th January 13:35
If so looks like it doesn’t need any body mods to accommodate that size. What profile rubber are you running?
Adrian@ said:
IMHO you should use 5 mm spacers, I had to add them yesterday to a wolfrace set of 15 and have offered the ML that I had here to test and I needed it on full lock.
Adrian@
For an 04 ET? Remember that offsets vary up to ET24 http://www.comp.co.uk/wheels/wheels.asp?range=ML_0...Adrian@
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