Is it possible to put wheel spacers in place to make the wheels more even with the edge of the body?If so, where can I find them?

I just don't like the gap between the wheels and the edges of the fenders.Especially in the rear. sad.gif

TIA

 

That gap is there for a reason. if that gap wasn't there, when the wheel compressed up into the body for bumps, it would hit your fender. Also, turn your wheels full right. Get out of the car and look at how much of the wheel sticks out of the fender. Then turn them full left and do the same. Now do you see why that gap is there?

Wheel spacers are a BAD IDEA. Bad, horrible, total your car and make you sterile kinda bad. tongue.gif
WHY?

Our wheels/hubs/rotors are "hubcentric". That means that 99% of the "weight" of the car is carried on the wheel's center hub, not on the lugs. If you buy "spacers" that are just discs of metal that are xxmm thick...they remove the "hub centric" weight distribution, and put the weight of the car on the LUGS, not the HUB. Eventually the lug studs fatigue...your wheel goes rolling left while you go right...into a telephone pole. BAD NEWS.

Now that I've put the fear of wheel spacers properly in your heart....

There is ONE EXCEPTION

H&R, the same company that makes high quality springs, also makes high quality HUBCENTRIC spacers. The problem? They are EXPENSIVE. They run about $150 for 2, so you would need $300 worth of spacers to move your wheels out.

You'd be better off to buy wheels in a slightly lower offset next time, to move the wheels "out" more.

One more note to put the fear of wheel spacers and low offset wheels back into your heart.

The lower the wheel offset on FWD vehicles, the more wear and tear on the vehicles bearings. Low offset wheels/wheel spacers also make torque steer worse. My moving the contact patch of the 2 tires farther apart, and also farther out from the point of steering rotation..."bump" steer and "torque" steer are magnified...as is bearing wear. If you've ever noticed. 99% of all aftermarket wheels in 4 lug patters come in +35 offset's or HIGHER. Usually in the +38 to +42 range. Why? (re read above). If you go down to a +25 offset wheel or the equivelant of a +25 offset wheel with spacers...your car will become quite a handful to drive.

You can do some things for looks, other things are done for saftey...this is one of those mods you should NOT do, for saftey reasons.

[ November 11, 2002, 04:11 PM: Message edited by: Random ]

 

Thanx for the reply,Random.I thought there may be problems with spacing,but wasn't sure.

 

ok i plan on buying the hubcentric spacers for my tib, but also what kinda offset would u recommend for new rims? a slightly lower offset or just the reg one?