Wheel spacers

[Ginge 35Edition]

Raffe you'll be glad your not buying these! H&R Trac+ 10mm.

Took them off tonight and the drivers side has sheered into two pieces:-

[Neil gti]

 
That's not good !!

[Ginge 35Edition]

Couldn't believe it to be honest. The passenger side came off straight away but the drivers one took some persuading! I've emailed DPM to see what they have to say, I've told them I'm happy to send them back for them to inspect them. Fingers crossed they'll give me a refund?!?!

[Ess_Three]

My 10mm H&Rs on my Mk3 did the same.
In all honesty, it doesn't matter...the taper that centres the wheel is still there, it's just harder to get the wheel to sit on until you get a bolt in...but they'll still work.

The bit that's broken off does nothing once the bolts are in and the wheel centred.

[Ginge 35Edition]

My 10mm H&Rs on my Mk3 did the same.
In all honesty, it doesn't matter...the taper that centres the wheel is still there, it's just harder to get the wheel to sit on until you get a bolt in...but they'll still work.

The bit that's broken off does nothing once the bolts are in and the wheel centred.

I did wonder that but besides all that I still wouldn't ever expect this?

[Beddie]

The bit that's broken off does nothing once the bolts are in and the wheel centred.

I'd beg to differ tbh mate 

The portion that has broken off is what makes the difference between a non hubcentric and a hubcentric spacer and also the part that makes the latter much safer than the former in use imo...

Not only does that flange replicate the oem seat of the wheel to hub and also helping locate and centre the wheel it is also load bearing as having your wheel bolts hold up your wheel as well as hold it on is best avoided..

[Raffe]

That's really not good 

Have often wondered how safe they were and tat would say to me not very.

Fingers crossed you get a full refund.

[Beddie]

That's really not good 

Have often wondered how safe they were and tat would say to me not very.

Fingers crossed you get a full refund.

In the interests of balance I have run H&R hubcentric spacers on my last 3 cars, both on road and hard track use without a single issue to date 

Key with the MK5/6 spacers is that H&R have to different spacers for front and rear use (A or B suffix at the end of the part number), they differ in the size of the bit that has broken off in the pics to suit the deeper rear hub depth of the rear of the car compared to the front 

[Ginge 35Edition]

If that's the case they don't reference that anywhere?

[Beddie]

If that's the case they don't reference that anywhere?

http://www.trakplus.com/trakguidelines/

For reference if you scroll down to the 10mm '205571' spacer you can see the 'A' and 'B' differences in hub height and taper radius