robhtid

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Hi guys hope I'm not becoming a pain but I have another question!! I was going down the modular route but I may tame it down abiut and just space my wheels out abit with a decent set of hub centric spacers.

Question is most of them are 30mm I've found some at 25mm but ideally I'd like 20mm or I'd even settle for 15mm but but it seems they arent made... is this true or does someone know of somewhere?

Thanks
 
Wheel spacers should be a total no no. They put uncalculated stresses on the original design and there have been many incidents assosiated with them.
They are an insurance notifiable modification with a lot of insurance companies quite rightly not covering cars that have them fitted.
 
The same stress as an offset modular? The tyre footprint and pivot point in the same place on the hub?
 
But I do agree with the stress being increased and is why I would not like to go 30mm it is not necessary
 
Spacers place the same additional stress as modulars - which lots of people use for severe off-roading with no more problems than slightly reduced wheel bearing life. You should only find 30mm spacers as anything thinner means either extended wheel studs (very rare) or very thin sections in the spacer or short retaining nuts inside the spacer - neither of which is a good idea for wheel retention.
The biggest issue with spacers is potentially loosening of the retaining nuts inside the spacer - which can't be detected by visual inspection & does happen occasionally if the wheels aren't removed & the tightening torque checked regularly
 
Yea I agree with what your saying but i see there are alot for sale for the disco3/4 at 15-20mm hense the question. I would be happier with replacing the studs in the hub and just sandwiching the spacers if I could get them
 
I understand the reticence of some to fit a wheel spacer as they do place a larger amount of force on the hub bearing. However, i think some of the comments are slightly unfair.
Firstly, i did a lot of research before purchasing some and its unclear just how much of a strain they put on a hub. Certainly, a quality hub-centric spacer made of billet aluminium, is not something i would call dangerous or risky if fitted properly. You should use loctite on the studs and use the studs that come with the spacers. They do come off again if you use a low strength loctite.
If your wheel bearings are knackered now or indeed you have some cheap hubs fitted for £35 off ebay, id say a spacer could cause a failure more quickly than normal offset setup. However, a quality hub bearing will be fine.
Also, offset modulars do the same thing to a hub but remember that steelies are not hub centric, so a heavily offset modular like a -32 is putting all of that strain on your hub and wheel studs. A 30mm spacer on a genuine alloy wheel spreads that loading on the hub via the lip around the hub. So arguably they are safer as the studs arent under load as well as the hub.
My insurance company didnt bat an eyelid at declaring spacers (Adrian Flux).
Just my thoughts on it
 

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