Thread: are wheel spacer good or bad?

My opinion on spacers is I do not like them. On top of that, running 1 1/2" or 2" wide spacers is just dumb and will make the car look stupid.

i had thoughts of selling my 18s and just running a set of 20-30mm spacers on my stock 17s for this year.

the spacers i'd need from adaptec are $65 each and i would not go with anything of less quality to do that. or i could convert to 5x114.3 and have vastly more wheels to choose from. either way, running spacers the right way is not cheap so factoring that in you could probably just find a set of wheels that are 'correct' for you.

Originally Posted by barnettimpala

LOL b/c wrong bolt patterns are better than spacers. Idk would you rather risk breaking wheel studs? Argument goes both ways. I have 8mm spacers with no problems but that's considerably smaller than you are wanting

Mustang wheels are NOT the wrong bolt pattern 5x114.3 IS 5x115

THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH WHEEL SPACERS, They make adapters 1.5" thick to change the lug patterns.

I wouldn't do spacers on stock wheels...

Originally Posted by REDCOMPG

Em incorrect there broham. Plenty of guys run the mustang 5x114.3 and have yet to break a wheel stud. Hell most of us run 5x114.3 because there's a bigger selection of wheels. For the past 4 years I've ran 114.3 with 0 broken studs. The different between 115 and 114.3 is very minor. You could always run centric hubs if you feel the need.

LOL any aftermarket wheel marked as 5x115 is really 5x114.3. They don't even make wheel adapters for this conversion, if you really felt the need, you could run wobble lugs LOL, but I bet they don't even wobble.

One guy breaks a stud when running 5x114.3 because he over tightened his lugs and suddenly it is because he ran the wrong lug pattern.

I've been on 5x114.3 wheels on my grand prix for over 4 years with them coming on and off so many times, I've lost count. Not one broken stud, not one issue.

Ignorance is bliss I guess.

Yup over tighten lugs = biggest factor to broken studs. After all we have 5 for each wheel breaking one isn't going to exactly kill you instantly but I would replace ASAP. Unless your like Sandman and have a freak accident.

I autox'd on a broken stud before...nothing happened. I ran on 4 lugs for at least 3 months.

Now that I've noticed I think one of studs are halfway broken. Owell ill get to it eventually.

Originally Posted by Drunkie

.... if you really felt the need, you could run wobble lugs LOL, but I bet they don't even wobble.....

So everything I ever knew was a lie? :'(

Life's full of lies

I have to find the thread, but if wheel spacers are installed properly, then they will not put stress on anything other than the usual parts that feel the same amount of stress as if you had no spacers.

Originally Posted by Drunkie

I have to find the thread, but if wheel spacers are installed properly, then they will not put stress on anything other than the usual parts that feel the same amount of stress as if you had no spacers.

this, provided you use quality parts. but why dump ~300 bucks into spacers when you can find a nice set of wheels for that off clist?