Wheel Spacers

[MikkiJayne]

Originally Posted by moltuae

Interesting. I was thinking bolt-on would be better and safer than bolt-through. Hadn't thought about those kind of potential issues. Hmmm ...

I don't like the bolt-through ones purely because they're such a pain to line up to put the wheel on. I have those on the racecar because I need 12mm, but that has studs to suit so I can change the wheels easily.

H&R are the only bolt-on spacers I would use because they have steel inserts in the aluminium spacer so you can torque them properly, plus they have TÜV approval. There are some on ebay made by 'Bulldog' which I wouldn't touch with a long pole - they have no centering hub and the wheel bolts in to aluminium which is a recipe for disaster with tyre fitters and rattle guns.

I torque my spacers to 120Nm the same as the wheel bolts and I've never had a problem with them, but then I never let random tyre fitters near the S8 either!

For reference, the hubs in FE wheels are flat, so won't work with the 17mm spacers I mentioned earlier.

I'm bolting my new wheels on now...