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Old 04-01-2010, 03:09 AM
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Do I need to do the wheel alignment after put on the wheel spacer???
I feel a little bit shaking when I drive on the highway over 70 MPH.
The spacers are H&R.
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Have your wheels balanced. And did you use a torque wrench on your wheel bolts?
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Have your wheels balanced
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spacers themselves can cause vibration. if the cause is the spacer, some people weld it to the rim.
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Before I put on the spacer, there is no vibration.
I didn't put them on by myself.
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It NOT the wheels.....it the spacer. You need a spacers with hub centric. A 10mm or thicker spacer will have the lip to center your wheels. 3 mm spacer will still have 2mm hub centric but a 5mm spacer pretty much have very little or no hub centric and cause the wheel not centering onto the hub that cause vibration.
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What size spacers do you have on the car? Are they hubcentric?

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.. but a 5mm spacer pretty much have very little or no hub centric and cause the wheel not centering onto the hub that cause vibration.
If they're 5mm, see the thread below:

will 3mm spacers fix the vibration ?

Allignment won't fix your vibration.
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The spacer are hub centric spacer.
10 in the front and 15 in the rear.
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I just put my summer wheels and tires back on and was considering the H&R DR series spacers for the rears. 12mm. I think I will watch how this post pans out first. Anyone else have this kind of issue with the H&R spacers? Mike
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The root cause is my wheel is not balanced.....
So the problem is gone after I do the wheel balance

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