MK5 Golf GTI
All Things Mk5 => Mk5 General Area => Topic started by: rickyquicky on October 21, 2013, 08:02:07 pm
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What are recommended wheel spacer thicknesses for an edition 30?
Have been looking at other threads and it seems some are using 10mm all round, and some say 10mm front and 15mm rears...having trouble getting nice shots of cars with spacers on, seen a few but not enough to make my mind up.
I dont want the wheels to actually stick out but I do want a nice stance, any opinions on the best size for the rears 10mm or 15mm (or even anything inbetween!)
10mm on the fronts seem the way to go, just the rears im debating.
Car is on Eiback Sportlines happy2
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Have noticed that some spacers have a 'lip' around the centre, and some don't. Is this protruding lip neccessary on a 10mm spacer to locate the wheels properly? Or is the lip only neccessary on larger spacers?
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The ones with the lip are called hub centric, you should really only buy this type. And for size it is up to you 10 or 12 mm would be perfect, with no rubbing under load. :happy2:
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As TC says... 10-12mm spacers will give you the 'look' of having a 8" wheel, will look much better. Its something i should do but just CBA.
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Thanks guys, ok so I will try to get 10mm front and prefereably 12mm rears.
I would only ever buy hubcentric, but noticed that some of the thinner hubcentric spacers don't have a lip.
I thought that maybe the thinner ones might not need the lip to locate the wheel as that stubby bit on the hub probably still sticks out far enough to locate the wheel anyway if that makes sense :ashamed: