Wheel spacers! Ok?

[freedriver]

Gday all .

I am thinking about getting some spacers for my d2 as i am getting a bit of rubing on the controll arm and hopefully to improve the stearing lock a bit .

So i am wondering if any one has tried them and how they go . I have heard that they can increase the load on wheel bearings ?

Any one of you had an issue with this or any other problems ? Thanks for any feedback , Bill.

[Tombie]

Available... Yes...

Illegal... Yes...
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[freedriver]

Really?... Damn .I dont want to change my rims . I think a lot of things on my vehicle are probably illegal though.

[bsperka]

Really?... Damn .I dont want to change my rims . I think a lot of things on my vehicle are probably illegal though.

Do the wheel spacers have a locating hub? Years ago the wheel nuts alone located the wheel, but this design has not been used for quite a while. All the wheel nuts do now is hold the wheel to the hub. They do not locate them, the locating hub centres the wheel and makes certain it is in the correct location. SAE and other standards exist to ensure your safety and that of others on the road. These standards come from years of experience regarding making a motor vehicle safer and more reliable, and less prone to cause injury and death....



Also, the insurance company is going to love you, if you are ever in an accident. They will have been collecting premiums for years and you provide them with the opportunity to walk away from the cost, if it's related to an illegal mod (no matter how tenuous some times). You then get to wear the cost....

[jafir]

I am thinking about getting some spacers for my d2 as i am getting a bit of rubing on the controll arm and hopefully to improve the stearing lock a bit .

Not really related to your question about spacers, but what size wheels and tires are you running? I've got 255/85R16 on stock 8 inch wide alloys. I never notice any rubbing, and when I look at the radius arms and chassis, I don't see any evidence of it. I do have a 3" terrafirma lift, which would get me some distance from the chassis, but the radius arms would still be the same distance.

[freedriver]

I have on there 255/70/18 at's I had the same on my last d2 and had no problems but on this one they rub slightly on the radius .

As these tyres are much bigger than s liketandard I thought this must be illegal but out sounds like m many others run similar. So is it legal to increase the tire size?

[freedriver]

Yes the spacers are "hubcentric" . They locate on the hub centre and the centre of the rim.

[thexprinter]

yes it ispossible than the wheel bearings will cop extra load but that is the tip of the iceberg so to speak the comp-lex legalities can possibly argued in time but wheel studs snapping when you are travelling atr highway speed leave little time to manouvre, it happened to a mate. you would be surprised how quickly the dealer replaced those beautiful rims and tyres to a set of street legal ones.... the ones originally on the vehicle were wide but with the wrong offset thus changing the design of the vehicle.....

[freedriver]

So different offset means snapped studs ? Somehow I doubt it was the offset that caused this to happen. But thanks for the .reply . I see many people on here and on the road with different offset rims and bigger tyres. So could an insurance company walk away from all of them in a case of a n accident?

[twr7cx]

I run Terrafirma hub adapters. Have been using them for ages, no problems. My previous vehicle was a Ford Falcon XR6 with a supercharger, that had hub adapters front and rear due to the 4 piston 342mm brake setup and I had no problems there either.

Porsche fit them from the factory to some of their vehicles.

Just made sure they are good quality units with a centre locating spigot.

[Tombie]

I run Terrafirma hub adapters. Have been using them for ages, no problems. My previous vehicle was a Ford Falcon XR6 with a supercharger, that had hub adapters front and rear due to the 4 piston 342mm brake setup and I had no problems there either.

Porsche fit them from the factory to some of their vehicles.

Just made sure they are good quality units with a centre locating spigot.

If I went on to fit them based on this (your) advice and then had a legal issue... Guess who just became liable :cool:

So Porsche fit them to vehicles, irrelevant, they are engineered to use them... And dont have a 3500kg towing rating or as high a GVM :cool:

The CORRECT way to do this, in Australia, is to get the maximum legal offset rims to suit the vehicle...

Even the XR6 should have! Wheels are cheap as chips now.


Back on the issues...

The current D2 you have you wheels on came with 16" rims I believe, and you've fitted your 18" rim/tyre combo, correct....

You still would then have the 16" steering stops! Just undo them, fit a washer or 2 and re-fit, this will space them enough to prevent rubbing.

Even with offset rims the turning circle wont improve enough to justify the cost!


Your call - $0.20 worth of washers or a few hundred in adapters (and associated legal issues)..


Note: The 4" lifted Disco2 weighing 2700kg running 33" Muddies on factory 18" rims is a very stable machine, even on maximum side slopes... No extra track gains required...

[twr7cx]

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[MR LR]

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[freedriver]

Cheers fellas . I think i will leave as is . it only rubs slightly . The vehicle in question is a es and came with the 18" rims , it only started rubbing when i put the 255/70/18 tyers on .

On another note i thought fitting rubber more than 50mm bigger than stock was a legal issue . Am i totally wrong about this ? I hope i am.

[Tombie]

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Calm yourself :cool:

I have seen a similar situation to what was discussed become a protracted battle in a Claims Court...

Just suggesting that phrasing be 'well chosen'. Nothing more...

So it would become:


I just made sure they were good quality units with a centre locating spigot.

No malice intended mate ;)

[Tombie]

Cheers fellas . I think i will leave as is . it only rubs slightly . The vehicle in question is a es and came with the 18" rims , it only started rubbing when i put the 255/70/18 tyers on .

On another note i thought fitting rubber more than 50mm bigger than stock was a legal issue . Am i totally wrong about this ? I hope i am.

I think you already know the answer :cool:

A quick 2 second google search brings up the required info ;)

[jafir]

As these tyres are much bigger than s liketandard I thought this must be illegal but out sounds like m many others run similar. So is it legal to increase the tire size?

Don't use my tire size as an example. Where I live, we don't have laws about fitting larger tires.... yet. There are people that run MUCH larger tires on the public roadways.

[Pedro_The_Swift]

this yours jafir?
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