Wheel Spacers: YES or NO?

[ILLFOZZ]

What is your position on wheel spacers?

 

[ILLFOZZ]

I'm currently running 25 mm hub adapters (5x100 to 5x114.3) that are hub centric and wheel centric.

 

[Chadlyb]

What is your position on wheel spacers?

Have 1" on mine so my beed locks clear the brake calipers. Doesn't effect my normal driving . They were professionally installed so no worries if they decide to fail. My tires have an extremely wide stance and still stick out past bush whacker fender flares that were installed.

 

[Renegade]

I prefer spacers to lots of wheel offset. Also on many vehicles, like Chevy, you only need to put spacers on the rear to even things out.

240,000 miles on my Chevy, 50,000 on my jeep no issues.

 

[systemdelete]

Spacers are good in certain use cases, especially as outlined above where only one axle needs more offset but you want the same specs on all the wheels. I prefer to run the offset in the wheels where I can, though this isn't always possible in many builds.

 

[St8ton]

I'm cool with wheel spacers. As you can imagine, you'll get varying opinions on the subject...but nothing overkill or overly large is usually alright. A centric spacer is always good when able to be had for your application. LocTite the spacer bolts and check the lugs regularly.

 

[Smileyshaun]

Wheel spacers are fine if they are installed and torqued correctly and are of good quality be sure you don't pick up a set of knockoff ones made out of very soft aluminum

 

[Seppy]

They need to be hub-centric so all the shear forces are not sitting on the studs holding the wheels on, they're sitting on the hub lip. Then the only job the lug has to do is keep the tire tight to the hub. Torque to spec and thread locker.

 

[systemdelete]

They need to be hub-centric so all the shear forces are not sitting on the studs holding the wheels on, they're sitting on the hub lip. Then the only job the lug has to do is keep the tire tight to the hub. Torque to spec and thread locker.

Nearly all forms of thread locker will fail rapidly in hub flange applications due to head from the brake rotor radiating into the hub flange. Concentrate on proper torque, and remember to check/re-torque after a heat cycle or two.(50 miles typically recommended)

 

[SubeeBen]

Just my 2 cents. If you have wheel spacers 99% of the shops (at lest in San Diego) will not even touch your vehicle. I.E. service brakes tire rotation etc.