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12-04-2010, 01:30 PM | #1 |
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10mm spacers front and rear, any problem?
I have a question on spacers... Want to know if anyone put on 10mm spacers both front and rear for 7.5x18et47 front and 8.5x18et49 oem rims? Any concerns? How does it look? And does it rub? Most importantly, how does it affect handling? Thanks for any comments...
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12-04-2010, 05:53 PM | #2 |
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I put Macht Schnell 12mm front and 10mm rear spacers on my car with stock wheels. Unfortunately the 10mm spacer would not fit since the hub on the rear extends out more than 10mm. The center bore on the spacer made to accomodate the hub was not deep enough to allow the spacer to fit flush to the disc hat. I tried to tighten a wheel on with the spacer in place and the spacer broke. As a result I went with a 5mm spacer instead. I've heard that in order to get a 10mm spacer to work, you have to grind the hub down by 2-3mm.
Not a lot of difference in handling but the car looks a lot more aggressive. I have 225/255 tires and the 12mm/10mm spacers would have been perfect.
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12-05-2010, 09:29 PM | #8 |
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The problem that I ran into is that the hub on the rear axle (the projection from the rear axle that the wheel is mounted on and keeps the wheel centred) of my car projects about 12-13mm from the face of the disc hat (the part of the brake disc that the wheel must be mounted against). Good quality hubscentric spacers like Macht Scnell have a projecting hub onto which the wheel is mounted to replicate the hub on the axle. The centre of the spacer is bored out so that the spacer fits onto the axle hub. The outside diameter of the hub on the spacer and the outside diameter of the axle hub are the same. If the axle hub projects 12 mm, but the spacer is 10mm thick, the bored center of the spacer will bottom out before the face of the spacer is flush against the disc hat. There will be a 2mm space and when you try to tighten the wheel, the spacer will bend to fill this 2mm gap and break. 5mm spacers do not have a projecting hub and the wheel is mounted onto the axle hub so there is no problem. 12mm spacers are thick enough that there is room for the axle hub. The problem only seems to be with 10mm spacers.
This is also a problem with some 3-series cars too. However, other 1-series owners have mounted 10mm spacers on their rear axles without a problem as noted in the above posts. Maybe BMW uses several different depth axle hubs on 1-series cars. The only solution that I have heard of is to grind the axle hub down until the center bore of the spacer can slide onto the hub completely. Hope this helps
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12-27-2010, 07:45 PM | #9 |
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12mm spacers Stock wheels and suspension 225 all-season Yokohama Rear: 10mm spacers Stock wheels and suspension 255 all-season Yokohama Get a bumping on certain high speed dips and going too fast over speed bumps. On the front I'm hitting the plastic fender roll of the front bumper. Don't know where I'm hitting in the rear yet – need more masking tape around the fender to determine. Don’t get any rubbing when corning. Although, I don’t push it to ultimate limits. This set of tires is definitely wider than the same size General Exclaims UHP’s I replaced. This is my winter setup. I’ll switch to some summer performance tires and wheels in May. |
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12-27-2010, 10:42 PM | #10 |
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I am dropped on Eibach andnrunning 12mm front and 10mm rear spacers with no problems. The spacers are from rogue engineering
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01-12-2011, 03:50 PM | #11 |
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I was running the Rogue Engineering 10mm spacers on all 4 corners on stock suspension with 225/255 tires. Was rubbing on rear during spirited driving and near bottoming out conditions. Took the rears off, stayed with the front (making the front-rear width differential nill as stock they are 10mm off).
Funny enough, when I installed the BMW PS I thought because of the drop I will have rubbing upfront, but I don't (could be because despite the drop I have more negative camber from the Dinan CPs so the tire doesn't get too close to the outter portion of the inner fender lining).
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