Rather than purchasing a set of "wrong'ish offset" alloys for £1.5k+ I have been entertaining the idea of hub-centric spacers to push my current BBS alloys out a bit and fill the arches.

The hatch looks much meatier on ET+28 to ET+35 alloys, the BBS's are ET+55, so a 20mm spacer would give me ET+35.

By getting hub-centric spacers I'm reducing the chance of vibration etc, but would there be any greater concern for my bearings? or is this not the case anymore...
I'm also assuming the stud lengths will be fine, due to the fact they will be re-located in the spacers?

Any comments greatly received

 

Hmmm so 20mm or 2cm to us, thats 2cm less that bolt is holding your wheel on, makes sense?
Further out it is, the more stressed it is.

Tony

 

The spacers I'm looking at provide new stud locations, so they are 20mm further out, so thread depth is the same Tony

 

I've been running ET35 18x9" Rotas on my STI8 for the past year, i've covered circa. 5000 miles and haven't had any problems with bearings, vibration etc..

 

Hello mate, ive just put some hubcentric on mine

i went for 40mm to give a super aggressive look.

verdict: doesnt work lol. they stick out way to much. rear rubs and front tyres catch arches

ive reduced the fronts down to 30mm and this is perfect.

rears are more differcult. i tried the 30mm on the rear but still got a slight rub. so im getting them redone to 26mm and putting on -ve some camber to hopefully sort it.

I have got spacers as the brembos didnt match wheel off set so needed them to fit brakes at front.

Now the hub studs stick out 25mm. if you put a 20mm hubcentric spacer on, the original studs will stick out 5mm past the spacer. unless you want to start cutting the hub studs you will need to go for 25/26mm spacers.

my car is lowered so this is also another reason for rubbing.

Apart from the rubbing i had no other issues running 40mm spacers

Hope this helps mate

 

I do like the idea of spacers to give that aggressive look however this isn't road legal, as the tyres are not allowed to protrude further than the arches.

 

Spot on Bob thats another reason ive had to decrease width

 

Theres no downside to hubcentric spacers. If you dont use hubcentric spacers then all of the vehicles weight will be borne by the studs/bolts and theyll fail and you will crash and die.

 

I fitted spacers to a non-Impreaza and it just knackered the wheel bearings...

I didn't crash or die....

LOL

dunx