Rear hubcentric wheel spacers don't fit

[kahunajb]

As title got some 15mm rear hubcentric spacers but they won't sit flush because of the depth of the the 57.1mm part of the brake disc.



I knew this could happen with 10mm hubcentric but thought these would fit. 

I know people do run 10mm spacers on the rear, are these just flat spacers then?

Would a 15mm flat spacer still allow the wheel to mount on the lip?

[stainesy]

cant you just file the spacer down abit to fit? if the rest of the bit that goes over the slip is a nice fit still can you just file or grind the inside rear edge out a little bit?

[kahunajb]

Wouldn't be able to file it but would be possible to machine out but don't have access to that type of equipment. I would have thought machining it deeper though would weaken the lip which the wheel sits on.

[murraymint]

Try sending dom069 a pm as he had the same problem with the spacers on his old mk3

[tweed]

Wouldn't be able to file it but would be possible to machine out but don't have access to that type of equipment. I would have thought machining it deeper though would weaken the lip which the wheel sits on.

Wheel doesn't sit on anything. It's bolted to a face.

Have you tried putting wheel on with spacer and bolted it up to see if it sits flat?

[Screech16v]

You need to chamfer the back of the spacer to allow  the profile of the hub to enter the spacer,this will not weaken the spacer at all as you only need to take approx 5mm out 

[FlashRedThree]

Surely the whole point of buying vehicle specific hubcentric spacers is that they sit flush with no fannying about 

Wouldn't be very happy if I bought them then had to go get them machined!

[tweed]

Cheapest ones he found I bet 


Get what you pay for

[kahunajb]

Wouldn't be able to file it but would be possible to machine out but don't have access to that type of equipment. I would have thought machining it deeper though would weaken the lip which the wheel sits on.

Wheel doesn't sit on anything. It's bolted to a face.

Have you tried putting wheel on with spacer and bolted it up to see if it sits flat?

The wheel sits on the hub locating ring and then is bolted to the face. Think the point of hubcentric spacers is they centre correctly and the weight is transfered to the hub and not through the bolts.

Not put the wheel on but it definitely won't sit flush as shown in the picture.

You need to chamfer the back of the spacer to allow  the profile of the hub to enter the spacer,this will not weaken the spacer at all as you only need to take approx 5mm out 

This would work but is something which would need to be done on a lathe which I don't have.

[abc2012]

Doesn't need to be 100% exact to be fair.

I would have a crack with a dremel or even just by hand with an emery cloth.