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Anyone with rear wheel spacers? Is the handling of the car affected having wheel spacers just on rear or having a different offsets front and back (not staggered fitment) just different offsets.
How is the handling/ride quality of the car???
Thanks...
Anyone with rear wheel spacers? Is the handling of the car affected having wheel spacers just on rear or having a different offsets front and back (not staggered fitment) just different offsets.
How is the handling/ride quality of the car???
Thanks...
I have 10mm wheel spacer on the rear wheels only. I can not tell the different in the handling and/or ride quality.
By having the wheel spacer on the rear wheels only, it supposed to do this to your car: more stress to the wheel hub bearing, having stagger setup in the FWD will cause more understeering. (since stagger setup was designed for RWD to ease the oversteering)
But honestly, since my car is an i4 (hence no freaking hp and I don't drive like I stole it....so I don't feel any different at all since I put on the 10mm wheel spacers.
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Just trying to choose which rim should I go either a TSW croft or TSW snetterton, only getting 19"s since I don't want to ride lower than 40mm series tires.
Ive got 3mm spacers in the rear on staggered wheels and feel nothing.
eddiefromcali - mind if i ask you what kinda spacers you have ? the only quality spacers i can find are the h&r 5mm ones, but i dont need 5mm. did you grind them down yourself ?
...a lot of them are junk. Most are not hub centric or wheel centric, missing chamfers etc etc. For 3mm it might work though if your hub-centric ring is deep enough to stick through the 3mm spacers. For OEM wheels the hub is not that long to stick through, JMO.
so do you think it would be better to go with quality spacers like h&r 5mm over the ebay 3mm stuff ? its a 2mm difference ... like 2 threads on the studs at the most ... i guess its a tradeoff either way ... let me know if theres any other options for good spacers.
Either stay away from e-bay or make sure you get ALL the info about them. Ask for hub centric (60.1mm) with chamfer (73.5deg) on the seat. Also, ask for wheel centric (that is the part, which imitates the hub on the wheel side of the spacer. Last, ask for decent chamfers on the stud holes..sometimes the stud mount pokes through the rotor just a bit and a chamfer on the stud holes gives you the clearance you need that the spacer can sit nice and flush. Also, you might need to use extended studs even for 5mm spacers (depends on the wheel as well)...not much thread left in my case for any spacer. You can buy extended studs at optionsimport (5mm, 15mm, 25mm extended) for less than $3 a piece.
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lammydi or anyone who have rear wheel spacers???
and I don't drive like I stole it....so I don't feel any different at all since I put on the 10mm wheel spacers.
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