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Title: Wheel spacers
Post by: RyanManning on 27 April 2009, 23:51

Hi
I have a 1.8 K reg mk3 and i want to get some wheel spacers to make the car look wider, But i am confused upon what to get and where to get it. can anyone help? or has anyone done this already?
Thanks

Title: Re: Wheel spacers
Post by: VR6-Joe on 28 April 2009, 12:50

I've got two sets of spacers, one pair are 10mm and one pair are 5mm, got them from Hellfrauds.

Started off running with the 5mm spacers on the rear, but the rear wheels weren't out enough, so I stuck the 10mm ones on and had to modify the arches to prevent the tyres rubbing. Although my car was down about 90-100mm on 17's so that's probably why they rubbed lol.

I wouldn't really recommend those spacers though. They're fine on the back, but on the front they're useless because they're not central on the hub and therefore cause 'wheel wobble'

Your best bet is to look on ebay for Hubcentric spacers which bolt to the hub and then the wheels bolt to the spacer. They're not cheap though, so be warned :grin:

Title: Re: Wheel spacers
Post by: RyanManning on 28 April 2009, 13:32

nice thanks for the advise mate i will have a look now :D

Title: Re: Wheel spacers
Post by: Mikester on 28 April 2009, 13:34

"Your best bet is to look on ebay for Hubcentric spacers which bolt to the hub and then the wheels bolt to the spacer. They're not cheap though, so be warned"

Hubcentric are safer.

Title: Re: Wheel spacers
Post by: GUAVR6 on 28 April 2009, 13:40

wish i could help, to bad im so far cause ive got and spare set, dood look!

Title: Re: Wheel spacers
Post by: rubjonny on 28 April 2009, 15:25

the way it works is this. If the spacers you require will be enough to prevent the wheel centring on the lip on the hub, then you need hub-centric ones.  If they arent, then you dont!

There are a few variables to consider, the thickness of the spacer vs the ammount of hub lip you have is the most obvious one, next you need to check the centre bore lip on the wheels you have.  For example, 10mm non-centric spacers were fine on my TSW omegas, when fitted to my MK2 Golf. 
But the same spacers and wheels didnt fit my MK1 cabby,m becasue the lip on the rear disc wasnt quite as deep as the lip on the rear disc on my MK2, that combined with the taper on the spiggot ring on the TSWs meant I couldnt centre the wheels on the cab, but they centred perfectly on the MK2.

Also, if you wnat hub-centric spacers these have to be deep enough to fit over the centre hub on the car, otherwise they wont fit flush.  For the same reason the non hubcentrics were fine on my MK2, hub centric 10mm spacers didnt fit as the centre lip was too deep, so they wouldnt fit over it.  The very same hubcentric spacers would have fitted on the cabby as the lip is more shallow, but I bloody sold them  :grin: