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antonio99er 06 March 2014 09:13 AM

Wheel spacers on bugeye
 
I have standard wrx wheels on my 2002 wrx and have noticed they sit in the arches a fair bit has anyone fitted spacers to these to beef it out abit if so what size spacers pics would be nice?

EssexJamie 06 March 2014 10:13 AM

Measure from the wheel to how far you want them to sit out, ie wheel to edge of arch 15mm, then buy 15mm spacers., if you want a 20mm extra width buy 20mm etc etc
Effectively changing the ET the lower the offset the more the wheel sticks out from the car.
IMO on 4wd cars you should match the front and rears so have the same size spacers all round.

I'd also only ever use hub centric spacers.
Failing that buy wider wheels or wheels with a lower ET ;)

antonio99er 06 March 2014 07:29 PM


Originally Posted by EssexJamie (Post 11371277)
Measure from the wheel to how far you want them to sit out, ie wheel to edge of arch 15mm, then buy 15mm spacers., if you want a 20mm extra width buy 20mm etc etc
Effectively changing the ET the lower the offset the more the wheel sticks out from the car.
IMO on 4wd cars you should match the front and rears so have the same size spacers all round.

I'd also only ever use hub centric spacers.
Failing that buy wider wheels or wheels with a lower ET ;)

Cool il give that ago just want it to look a little better till I get some new wheels:)

Captainfunbags 29 May 2014 06:37 PM

Did you ever get round to doing this mate

PICTURES !!!!!

antonio99er 29 May 2014 07:27 PM

No I didn't pal as I'm thinking of selling the car so didn't want to spend no more on it!

Captainfunbags 11 June 2014 05:35 PM

Anybody have any before and after pics ?

Captainfunbags 12 June 2014 06:11 PM

BTT

rsdub 12 June 2014 08:18 PM

i do have a set of 4x15mm wheel spacers that i am not using.sorry no pics

Captainfunbags 14 June 2014 08:26 AM

Thanks mate I've ordered some 25mm hubcentric jobbies, fingers crossed they arrive in time for my wheels going back on but Im not holding my breath

JDM_Stig 14 June 2014 08:30 AM


Originally Posted by Captainfunbags (Post 11449663)
Thanks mate I've ordered some 25mm hubcentric jobbies, fingers crossed they arrive in time for my wheels going back on but Im not holding my breath

Hope the wheel bearings are up to the job . . .


:Suspiciou

Captainfunbags 14 June 2014 08:38 AM

Do a search mate, appreciate it's a lot but plenty of people running them or wheels with similar offset with no issues.............

Time will tell I guess :)

gpssti4 15 June 2014 07:19 AM

With regard to wheel bearing problems; there is no difference in running spacers compared to changing the wheels to a set with a different offset.


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