Could someone tell me why wheel spacers would be used. I imagine that it would push your wheels out for better road coverage while cornering, but does it really help that much. Wouldn't your wheel bearings get worn uneavenly because the offcenter mounting? It just sounds bad to me. Whats the truth?



Thanks
Frank

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I believe they are also used for adding rims that wouldn't ordinarily go on a car. Like deep dish rims(RWD wheels) on a FWD car.

 

Some people like to fill out their wheel arches by pushing the wheels out to the edges. ALso, if you get the KW coilovers for instance, you may need spacers to get clearance to run the stock wheels.

I'll move this over to the tire and wheel forum

 

Ok, so do the bearings get messed up with this application. If someone from tirerack.com saw this I'm sure they'de chime in.


Thanks,
Frank

 

I had H&amp;R hubcentric 15mm spacers on my Jetta and haven't had any problems with the wheel bearings.

 

In theory this could stress wheel bearings more. We tend to not space more than lets say 18 mm on any application, for the loss of hucentricity. We dont work with universal spacers at TireRack for the same concerns foremensioned.

Dan

 

Think of a plane or &quot;disc&quot; perpendicular to the axis or axle midway between the inner and outer bearings. The wheel has a plane at its center (somewhere inside the hub mounting face (through the center of mass or gravity) that should closely co-incide with the plane between the bearings. When you space the wheels out a bit the plane of the wheel may still be between the two bearings but one bearing gets more of the load than the other - when they are spaced out a lot, so the wheel is cantilevered off the end of the axle, beyond both bearings, the wear is greatly accelerated; the loads on the ***** or rollers may even be on a face or area of the bearing race that was never designed to take load and you end up chewing up bearings.