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Old 19 April 2012, 11:46 AM
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hi,

does anyone have any before and after pics of what your car looks like with spacers?

What effect to driving will installing a wheel spacer have?

Im purely after it for a cheap way of giving it a more agressive look, if its going to cause me driving issues, i wont bother.

thanks!
Old 19 April 2012, 12:00 PM
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normally wheel spacer do the wheel bearings alot quicker as theres more load on them, but they do look bloody good with them on : - )
Old 19 April 2012, 12:08 PM
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Won't put anymore stress on thwm than running an aggressive offset wheel

Go for a 20mm should give you the look your after just make sure they are a well made spacer I know japspeed to them in a 5x100 20mm so I expect they will do them in 5x114.3 for yours
Old 19 April 2012, 12:16 PM
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ive got a wrx, its 5x100 for me. was looking at an old post of japspeeds funnily enough and they were knocking them out for £70 all-in, straight bolt-on. have facebooked them and see if they reply (cant ring at the moment, im in work....)

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Old 19 April 2012, 12:23 PM
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Cool I was looking at your avatar of the hatch and assumed you needed 114.3
Old 19 April 2012, 12:42 PM
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hows about ?
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Old 19 April 2012, 12:50 PM
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That looks like a nice bit of kit!
Old 19 April 2012, 01:03 PM
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They are nice , i have some rx8 ones in stock , but not the subaru ones but i can get them not a problem ..
Old 19 April 2012, 01:27 PM
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I had some a while back. From the research I did, they only screw up your wheel bearing if they already on their way out. You should be fine. Strangely I had to get my wheels rebalanced as I got some vibrations. I had CDF racing which were great or I'd go for Eibach ones.

Pic of my old spacers when selling:




before spacers:




After:




Hope this helps
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i have a set of 20mm hubsentrics for sale complet set of 4 5x100 all good accept one bolt hole has chisel marks as couldnt remove one nut but had them on car for years and a few track days and no probs 100quid delivered, identical to gazp one in his pic
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Originally Posted by BlueBridge Subaru
hows about ?
how much delivered?
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Good pics mate
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