Spacers Part II
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Spacers Part II
This thread is for showing to people who are interested what the spacers look like installed.
20mm spacers
On the car
20mm spacers
On the car
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Looks great but you may want to be careful.
I had a similar setup, not with spacers with with wheel offset on my 500sl. Well long story short I turned into my driveway a bit aggressively with the wheel cut and the tire hit the driveway apron and put the tire into the top of the fender, and mangled the fender a bit. I rolled it back as best I could with a baseball bat, but it still cracked the paint a bit.
Just make sure everything clears.
Take care,
George
I had a similar setup, not with spacers with with wheel offset on my 500sl. Well long story short I turned into my driveway a bit aggressively with the wheel cut and the tire hit the driveway apron and put the tire into the top of the fender, and mangled the fender a bit. I rolled it back as best I could with a baseball bat, but it still cracked the paint a bit.
Just make sure everything clears.
Take care,
George
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Looks great but you may want to be careful.
I had a similar setup, not with spacers with with wheel offset on my 500sl. Well long story short I turned into my driveway a bit aggressively with the wheel cut and the tire hit the driveway apron and put the tire into the top of the fender, and mangled the fender a bit. I rolled it back as best I could with a baseball bat, but it still cracked the paint a bit.
Just make sure everything clears.
Take care,
George
I had a similar setup, not with spacers with with wheel offset on my 500sl. Well long story short I turned into my driveway a bit aggressively with the wheel cut and the tire hit the driveway apron and put the tire into the top of the fender, and mangled the fender a bit. I rolled it back as best I could with a baseball bat, but it still cracked the paint a bit.
Just make sure everything clears.
Take care,
George
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Jag 79:
I wouldn't space out a lowered car, especially without rolling the fenders.
Michael:
I did this on my e36 M3. Be really careful not to crack the paint. Slow and steady wins the race on that one, AND use a LOT of heat. The heat gun is your friend. The more gentle passes you make, the less chance of hurting the paint you will have.
I'd be interested to see what an S-Type with the fenders rolled looks like.
Take care,
George
I wouldn't space out a lowered car, especially without rolling the fenders.
Michael:
I did this on my e36 M3. Be really careful not to crack the paint. Slow and steady wins the race on that one, AND use a LOT of heat. The heat gun is your friend. The more gentle passes you make, the less chance of hurting the paint you will have.
I'd be interested to see what an S-Type with the fenders rolled looks like.
Take care,
George
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Jag 79:
I wouldn't space out a lowered car, especially without rolling the fenders.
Michael:
I did this on my e36 M3. Be really careful not to crack the paint. Slow and steady wins the race on that one, AND use a LOT of heat. The heat gun is your friend. The more gentle passes you make, the less chance of hurting the paint you will have.
I'd be interested to see what an S-Type with the fenders rolled looks like.
Take care,
I'm assuming this is the tool that does the rolling of the fenders...
George
I wouldn't space out a lowered car, especially without rolling the fenders.
Michael:
I did this on my e36 M3. Be really careful not to crack the paint. Slow and steady wins the race on that one, AND use a LOT of heat. The heat gun is your friend. The more gentle passes you make, the less chance of hurting the paint you will have.
I'd be interested to see what an S-Type with the fenders rolled looks like.
Take care,
I'm assuming this is the tool that does the rolling of the fenders...
George
I'm assuming this is the tool used for rolling out the fenders....
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Not a single issue. Drove 2300+ miles to Texas and back. Drove 144mph in Texas, and nothing. When I put the spacers on, I did use Red Loctite on the nuts that hold the spacer to the hub.
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Originally Posted by Bmwm5lover
Love it!!!
Exactly what i want to do with my Stype.
Where did you buy them and how much were they?
Exactly what i want to do with my Stype.
Where did you buy them and how much were they?
Originally Posted by uropnm6
Did you get them made hubcentric? 63.3mm thanks Paul in and out ( male- female)
Looking real good Michael....
I added 20mm wheel spacers to my A6 recently when I went from 17's to 19" alloys, although I opted for "HUBCENTRIC" as I've heard too many horror stories about non hubcentric styles where the load is all on the bolts which can cause wheel wobble.
Anyhow, as I said, looking good and glad you're pleased with them
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Looking real good Michael....
I added 20mm wheel spacers to my A6 recently when I went from 17's to 19" alloys, although I opted for "HUBCENTRIC" as I've heard too many horror stories about non hubcentric styles where the load is all on the bolts which can cause wheel wobble.
Anyhow, as I said, looking good and glad you're pleased with them
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That is only with rolled fenders correct? If I can run them without rolling the fenders I am there! If I have to roll the fenders I might hold off for a while.
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I am going to try them. As I said before my STR is running H&R lowering springs, and the fenders are not rolled (these are just for the front to even out the reveal) I went with
20mm 5x108-5x108 63.3mm Hubcentric male-female so there will not be any issues, I know that the wheels are lug centric, but for the sake of a few bucks I went Hubcentric.
My BMW M6 is hubcentric. Shipped to the house $130. Paul
20mm 5x108-5x108 63.3mm Hubcentric male-female so there will not be any issues, I know that the wheels are lug centric, but for the sake of a few bucks I went Hubcentric.
My BMW M6 is hubcentric. Shipped to the house $130. Paul
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Nope, no rolled fenders here. I'm also running the stock STR widths (245).