Wheel spacers

[toonarmy]

Anyone got them fitted 15mm pros cons cheers chaps

[themoog]

I thought about wheel spacers on mine but I think25 mm is the min or I don't think you will notice. I was going to get those bolt on hub centric ones but can't be bothered now.

[X5-D-Sport]

I bought some 15mm Hubcentrics... in all honesty.. they are total crap beyond comprehension....

they had over 1mm slop on the hub centre & another 1mm slop on the wheel centre...
so sloppy that the vehicle was undrivable with wheel shake...
additionally the "so-called" experience "Modified"seller sent 40mm wheel bolts which only gave a 5mm thread bite...
Again.. even more lethal !

the Hubcentric spacers were poorly machined... with tragically soft aluminium, awfull machined finish too, with too fast a traverse of the cutting heads..

Eventually, I returned this junk & had a local engineering firm make some to my own drawing...
and they are perfect & not sloppy... and I bought some 45mm Wheel Bolts.. M14 x1.5mm threads... perfect.

I wouldnt allow Hubcentric junk near my car after this experience..


I have 4 matching wheels/tyres  ie the original REAR wheels all round with 315 tyre width...
35mm spacers on the rear..
15mm spacers on front..
suspension raised 2" front & back with extended Braided brake pipes to cope with the extra travel...
added 3 degrees negative camber to the front struts by moving the strut tops inboard by 12mm from original position....
... giving  -1 degree to prevent tyre scrub... and the additional  -2 degrees to account for the camber change by raising the geometry & lower linkage.
My D-Sport drives like shes on rails & tall too with nice road presence & a good stance.

the spacers width + big wheels all round & raising the body 2" gives a perfect track width match all round, even suspension travel & ground pressure all round... AND the road handling as a result is better than I possibly wished for...

the road manners are superb for such a fat lady...

the  ONE down side...
when you get out, you gotta use the side step - or fall out onto the street.. lol :'(

[toonarmy]

Sounds fantastic u got some pics of her standing proud

[X5-D-Sport]

Lots... but havent worked out how to load them here yet...
if you can PM me with a mail address, I will send some...
maybe we can open a page as a "Project" to share with members here,
as Im unaware of anyone having done this before...

[X5Sport]

Hint:

How to attach piccies is on the top of the Forum Discussion area.....as a sticky  :-[

[X5-D-Sport]

Thanks Richard...
I will check out the "hint" after evening meal...  ::)

[Steamyrotter]

[quote="X5Sport"]
Hint:

How to attach piccies is on the top of the Forum Discussion area.....as a sticky  :-[
[/quote]

Of Car - Not wife!!

>:D >:D

[shadrack]

ive always used h & r wheel spacers and never had an issue, they expensive though