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Wheel spacers?

Post by Kris-mr2 »

Looking at alloy wheels and finding it hard to get staggered alloys so basically wondering what size spacer I would need as will be 7j alloys and want 7.5j on the rear


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Re: Wheel spacers?

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The rears are 1" or 25mm less track than the front to accommodate the 1" wider rear wheels and keep them in line.

so if you have same size wheels all round then :-
The perfect rear spacer is 12.5mm but not available so you need either:-
10mm spacer which tracks 2.5mm inboard of fronts
15mm spacer which tracks 2.5mm outboard of fronts.

if you get 7J fronts and 7,5j rears if I read your post correctly, then you will be looking at 7mm spacers (not available) so you would be looking at:-
5mm which will track 2mm inboard of fronts
10mm spacers which will track 3mm outboard of fronts.

I went with 15mm to give the the wider stance on my 7J and then also on my 7.5J wheels until I found my staggered wheels

hope that helps
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Need to know offsets to give any sort of suggestions.

But main suggestion is get some secondhand Japanese wheels.
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