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Model specific boards => Golf mk2 => Topic started by: azstuab1 on 13 June 2007, 09:17

Title: Spacers - advice
Post by: azstuab1 on 13 June 2007, 09:17

Any advice regards spacers for my mk2, just purchased a set of 20cm for the rear.
Any one fitted any recently??

Cheers

Title: Re: Spacers - advice
Post by: Mew on 13 June 2007, 09:29

Your going to need major arch work for them!  :wink:

Nah seriously, i guess you mean 20mm. What size wheels do you have, do you know the offset? Also, is the car lowered at all? Are they the type that you bolt onto the hub and then bolt the wheel to the spacer?

Title: Re: Spacers - advice
Post by: tom26 on 13 June 2007, 09:35

going to be one seriously wide golf! 20mm on the other hand...

Title: Re: Spacers - advice
Post by: rubjonny on 13 June 2007, 12:34

20mm is still quite alot unless you have uber high offset wheels, I've got 10mm at the rear on ET28 wheels and they still scrub a bit over bumps with 3 passengers...  Unless you mean 20mm in total i.e. 10mmm per side?

Either way the thing to remember about spacers is you need to have a hub to centre the wheel on, either make sure there is enough of the original lip sticking out to centre the wheels, or get hub-centric spacers with their own lip on.  10mm on the rear is about as wide as you can go with non-hub centric spacers, any more and theres no lip to centre the wheel!

Title: Re: Spacers - advice
Post by: azstuab1 on 13 June 2007, 13:40

Yeah your right 10mm a side. Run on old BBS RIMS, 14" 195/60'S.Car lowered on Ebach springs with Bilstien shocks.
Cheers Fellas, Roll on Tatton Park