do our cls550 have a deep front hub? trying to get the proper spacers

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Old Jul 15, 2021 | 01:02 AM
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do our cls550 have a deep front hub? trying to get the proper spacers

do our cls550 have a deep front hub? trying to get the proper spacers
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Old Jul 18, 2021 | 02:24 PM
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Fronts require a 34.5mm offset. (rears 48mm).
If your wheels have less than this, then you will need a spacer, equal to the difference.
i.e. 34.5mm required, wheel has 25mm offset needs a 9.5mm spacer.

If your wheels have a greater than 34.5mm offset, they will sit deeper in the wheel well and tires may rub against the inner fender liner.



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Originally Posted by rick hesek
Fronts require a 34.5mm offset. (rears 48mm).
If your wheels have less than this, then you will need a spacer, equal to the difference.
i.e. 34.5mm required, wheel has 25mm offset needs a 9.5mm spacer.


If your wheels have a greater than 34.5mm offset, they will sit deeper in the wheel well and tires may rub against the inner fender liner.


You have no clue at all of what you're saying. Total nonsense.
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Old Jul 18, 2021 | 04:29 PM
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You have no clue at all of what you're saying. Total nonsense.
Enlighten me
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Originally Posted by rick hesek
Fronts require a 34.5mm offset. (rears 48mm).
If your wheels have less than this, then you will need a spacer, equal to the difference.
i.e. 34.5mm required, wheel has 25mm offset needs a 9.5mm spacer.
It is the opposite - adding spacers reduces offset not increases it. In your above example, adding (non existing) hypothetical 9.5mm spacers to wheels with et25 will result in et15.5 not et34.5. Before advising someone, one needs to understand how offsets "work" (even though this is NOT at all what OP is asking).
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Old Jul 18, 2021 | 06:57 PM
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I concede. You are correct, "threeMBs".
However, there are much more civil ways to correct somebody on a forum.
You sound like a very angry little boy!
And what is OP asking?
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And what is OP asking?
Are you that dumb or just pretending? You're ignored!
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Old Jul 20, 2021 | 11:25 AM
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ok to help anyone else that will need this help in the future.

our front hubs are deeper, this means you cannot have the flange that you get for the rear.

so the front needs to be hubcentric without the flange, and the rear needs to be hubcentric with the flange.

I'm noticing even though this vehicle started in 2012, there are still a lot of unknowns about this car. Probably because it is not old enough or not long enough for it to be out of warranty for the discoveries to happen
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Originally Posted by rick hesek
I concede. You are correct, "threeMBs".
However, there are much more civil ways to correct somebody on a forum.
You sound like a very angry little boy!
And what is OP asking?
Agreed - what a pompous ***.
'ignore' me, too, moron
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Agreed - what a pompous ***.
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