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Title: Wheel spacers
Post by: George GTI16v on 31 October 2014, 22:57

Hi, I'm looking into getting some wheel spacers for my GTI 16v, it's got standard BBS wheels on and am just looking for that wider stance look. Which size spacers should I be going for? It's on eibach springs which are slightly lower than standard but not a lot, might look into a set of coil overs next too.  Any help appreciated  :laugh:

Title: Re: Wheel spacers
Post by: Waspy on 31 October 2014, 23:39

You should be able to see by looking at it. My car is dropped 30mm on Eibachs, and I don't think I would go more than 5mm. The car was on coilovers when I bought it and scraped round corners. So I wouldn't have spaced at all on coilys.

I'm not the most experiences with it, but I would say BBS RAs probably won't look too great spaced anyway, they are too narrow IMO. Maybe 5mm, as said.

Title: Re: Wheel spacers
Post by: Thom89 on 31 October 2014, 23:51

Hi, Welcome to the forum...
I'm guessing that your wheels are BBS "RA's"  I run 10mm spacers all round with no problems, I did try doubling up on the rears to 20mm but found that outer tire walls scrubbed lightly when 4 up, and getting over speed bumps etc, so reverted to the 10mm set up, which gives a nice subtle look...
I run 185 60 14 Dunlops on standard 16v springs, and have no clearance problems with the 10mm spacers.

Thom

Title: Re: Wheel spacers
Post by: George GTI16v on 01 November 2014, 08:29

Thanks for the welcome and the replays, tom89 do you have any pictures of your car with the 10mm spacers? I did wonder if they would look two skinny. I do have a set of G60 steels also but I think there the same width.