New wheels catching caliper

[Libertine]

I bought some work equips, fit perfect on the rear but the front are ever so slightly catching the caliper.. can anybody tell me which spacer to go with ? I'm a newbie in this area..

will these work ?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/5mm-ALLOY-WHE ... 3f1d3a3cf2

[madbasshunter]

Don't like those sort of spacers much as have had a few customers with vibration issues due to wheels being off centre.
Any pictures Rob and what are the sizes and offset of the wheels, should be stamped on the back.

[fingers99]

Never, ever, use universal spacers. You'll suffer from wheel imbalance as long as you have them fitted. They're a complete and utter waste of money.

[Nic]

I bought some work equips, fit perfect on the rear but the front are ever so slightly catching the caliper.. can anybody tell me which spacer to go with ? I'm a newbie in this area..

will these work ?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/5mm-ALLOY-WHE ... 3f1d3a3cf2

Those type of spacers are potentially very dangerous, if you're going to fit spacers only use hubcentric ones that bolt to the hub and include a spigot to center and support the wheel, like this:



Have a read of these write ups on the subject.
http://planetsoarer.com/offset/studs.htm
http://planetsoarer.com/offset/offset.htm

The link below shows the type of hubcentric spacer you'll need (note this is just an example, I have no idea what the quality of these particular ones is like). Hubcentric spacers seem to start at 10mm wide, you need one that has a PCD of 5x114.3, uses M12 x 1.5 bolts and has a spigot size of 60.1mm. I'm sure someone will be able to advise where best to source some from.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HUBCENTRIC-10 ... 0841023916

[JD]

just to throw a spanner in the works, I have a set of 5mm universal spacers on the rear and they've never caused any problems. they were on the car when I bought it and was surprised to find them there given that everyone told me my wheels would fall off and vibration would shake car to pieces if i ever used them. ideally it's always best to go hubcentric, though.

[l1ca]

I fitted some hubcentric 20mm spacers on the rear a while back, when i took the wheel off I noticed it was already rocking some 5mm universal ones. So without thinking I stuck them on the front, went for a drive and it felt like I was driving on a cobbled street.

Took the universal ones off the front, and the drive returned to being as smooth as a porn stars bottom.

moral - dont use universal spacers, they are not only cheap, but ultimately dangerous.

[Nic]

By coincidence there's a thread on the Supra forum warning of the danger of using cheap hubcentric spacers.

http://www.mkivsupra.net/vbb/showthread ... el-spacers!!!!!!!

[MartinF]

moral - dont use spacers

Fixed that for ya

[fingers99]

Mind you, the lesson would seem to be more in the fitting than anything else. Any fool can put slide on ones on......

Porsche, FIAT and Alfa have used spacers on stock, production, cars. FIAT and Alfa don't mess about......

[madbasshunter]

I don't like spacers but sounds like he has no option if he wants to fit the work equips in these sizes
Fronts are 17x8J ET 31 with 215/40/17
Rears are 17x9J ET 23 with 245/40/17

[Gullzter]

Ive never really been a fan of spacers but i have them on the Beams as the VRs catch caliper otherwise.
What i noticed with the Gtr link on Supra forum was that it was a spacer with welded bolts and spacer was bolted onto original studs instead of replacing stock studs with extended ones. Why anyone would bolt a wheel onto a spacer that was bolted onto hubs ive no idea as that does look really dangerous
Thats just my opinion though!
Im ok with the spacers on the Beams as they are hubcentric and have extended studs.