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Old Mar 8, 2006 | 05:07 PM
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How wide spacers with factory rims?

My car is droped pretty much so how wide spacers should I have?



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Old Mar 9, 2006 | 12:03 AM
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stock on 18's in front is 30... on 19's I'm running 35 in front and 40 in rear
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I don't understand the question, nor the above reply.
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Originally Posted by kleiv
My car is droped pretty much so how wide spacers should I have?



Best regards Kleiv.
When I used 18" stock wheels, I had ET30F and rear ET39 - 5mm spacer =ET34. That was with 245/275 PS2.
Then I switched to SL55 take-offs wich were 8.5"and 9.5" wide with ET30 F and ET33 R with the same tires, and that was a perfect set up.
Don't put any spacers on the front as 10mm is minimum for a hub-centric machined spacers, and it will make your car look like a dune buggy.
At the Rear, do a compression test with one wheel over a curb, to determine what gap you have left between the tire wall and the rolled fender lip.
Slide an increasing number of credit cards around the tire until you get stuck and that's your gap to play with, just back off 3mm.
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Old Mar 9, 2006 | 02:24 AM
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That's the best answer I could have in this question, thanks man.



BTW: The 80 cent drop works perfektly
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