Originally Posted by
AK83
If you can justify the expense:
(My D1 has Yokohama A/Ts fitted when I bought it, and they're brand new, so tyres is not on my mind for a few years yet!)
With that, those Yoko's are 255/70/16's and it rubbed at about 3/4 lock and drove me nuts just getting into and out of my driveway!
I searched low and high for 20-ish mm spacers for months.
Finally found a decent locally sourced set 30mm thick.
Nice quality alloys(not cheapie crap Al material) almost definitely Chinese made, but bought from a local Melb supplier on ebay.
He wanted $80 for each pair, so $160 for all 4. I could have done just the fronts, but then thought that extra track width just at the front and not the back may look and handle weird. So all four were acquired.
I thought 30mm each(ie. 60mm for each axle may be too much, but the cars stance is a bit nicer now with that extra 60mm offset.
Looks less tip toey or top heavy looking. Dunno if the handling is any better considering the extra 60mm wheel track width, but it's not worse and my biggest fear of any imbalance didn't surface.
Easy fit, took about an hour of lifting each side of the car.
Only issue can be the need for a slim socket(I think it was 19mm, but can't remember now) to tighten up the nuts on the wheel spacers. The regular wheel brace in the car don't fit due to size differences.
Your regular wheel and wheel nuts fit to the spacer and you wouldn't know any different.
The hard bit in fitting them is just to stop the wheels rotating when trying to fit the spacers, but a block of wood(or if you have help just someone's foot) on the brake pedal worked well(same issue when it comes time to remove them if need be).
I now get proper full lock back without the need to adjust steering stops, so turning circle is basically unaffected.
something else to consider.
