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Originally Posted by jhandy
just food for thought....
I had 7mm HR hubcentric spacers all around. I had nothing but trouble with them. Shaking and balance issues. Dealt with it for 2+ yrs, spend all sorts of cash trying to balance/rebalance/tires/rotors......I refused to believe that it was the spacers. Because I sold my OEM rims, I could not remove the spacers for trial runs.
Finaly I bought new OEM rims.....With spacers.... Shaking.....Removed the front spacers and instantly no shaking.
It would have been enormously easier and cheaper to just get proper fitting rims to begin with.
Just my 2 cents
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I had a similar situation a few years back with a set of Sportec wheels . Because of their offset they required spacers. In fact, it was a propriety design, wherein the spacers were specifically designed to countersink to the back of the wheels . To make a long story short, there was a vibration in the front end that drove me to near madness ! No matter what I tried to do to remedy the problem - failed . It was like a "ghost in the machine" complex . I eventually dumped the wheels (they were 6k I might add
) , and I purchased a set of Champions vowing to never rely on spacers again . Interestingly, once I had everything dialed in with the new wheels, I decided to experiment with some spacers. Miraculously, the vehicle was dead stable with each and every spacer application that I tried . So, as a friend of mine and fellow enthusiast likes to say, "every vehicle is it's own episode"..
JD
p.s. The Sportecs eventually went to friend who put them on his cayman. The vehicle is dead stable and he loves them . Don't figure ?
