Thread: Wheel spacers! Ok?

Available... Yes...

Illegal... Yes...

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

Originally Posted by freedriver

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....

Originally Posted by freedriver

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.

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?

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

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.....

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?