XRT_si

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Loving these spcers! Extra strain on wheel bearings anyone?

S1rst

That cant do any good for it surely!

Chip

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boXXer

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FastFordChris

thats not one of leepos cars is it? lol

NEIL A

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My mate runs similar on his Ecosse built 206

Christian and Beccy

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It's not that uncommon in the Porsche world.

Christian and Beccy

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Charlie Chalk

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How safe are spacers.

Christian and Beccy

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I assume that was a question?

Hub-centric ones are OK, as are the ones that bolt to the hub too, but of course it will never be quite as safe with spacers as it was without.

Also, the wider they get, the more strain on your wheel-bearings.

Charlie Chalk

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So these are quite safe then?

DanW@FastFord

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Yes! Perfectly safe.

boXXer

i use the 24mm hubcentric on the rear of my cos to space the std wheels out. they are fine.

Charlie Chalk

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Cheers

Garage19

As said hubcentric are safest but when fitting spacers on the front you must consider the huge amounts of scrub radius you will introduce into the geometry.

Steering willl become slower feeling, heavier and feel less direct so not great!

DanW@FastFord

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It's not all bad though, as long as you get the geometry set up properly afterwards it can improve handling. I had some hubcentrics on a FWD car and it felt more stable after.

Glenn_

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Thats just silly. Im not to keen on the idea ov spacers to be honest.

XRT_si

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Agreed decent hub-centric spacers giving a similar offset to what comes on the car already is perfectly safe, however those 80mm spacers would knock out wheel bearings very quickly.

Ive had decent bolt on hub-centric spacers of around 20-25mm of a few cars and they are fine to drive with imo.

WD Pro

To make it wider or just to get the correct offset ?

Certain sizes of TD PR 1.2's come with hubcentric spacers from the factory to give you the offset you require and (I guess) to minimise there stock.

I needed 9x17 with zero offset and they came with 20mm spacers which fit into the back of the wheel without spiggot rings. The spiggot ring is still used but in the back of the spacer instead.

WD

Chip

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Well if the geometry is right to begin with and then you add spacers on the front, you will have to change your steering arm location afterwards, so its not really a case of a "setup" its more of a total redesign from scratch with a new casting for the upright etc.

Thats IF its optimum initially of course in terms of ackerman angle etc

So the same as running a different offset wheel basically.