has anyone.....

[VTaaRon]

has anyone got alloys on their car and use 20mm spacers? have you had any problems? i have enzo alloys with a centre bore of 75 i know saxos are 61.5 so ill need spigots but its all getting confusing help

[addictedtosax]

iv got 20mm's with my alloys mate. i was told i needed them with mine. no problems as such bar having to do a bit of bendin to stop rubbing smileys/smiley5.gif .

u can just about see one of the spacers here, just behind the alloy
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a56/addictedtosax/Car009.jpg

[VTaaRon]

so how exactly are your alloys on ? what size do you have? do you have the spacer on the hub and then the alloy just screwed through into the hub nothing in the centre of the alloy?

[addictedtosax]

the spacer is simply like a thick disk with 4 holes for the wheels nuts to go thru to screw onto the hub. they go between the alloys n the hub face if u get spacers u need to get extended wheels nuts to compensate for the extra distance to the hub.

iv got 15's btw

[VTaaRon]

but normally the centre of the alloy would rest around the hub if you just have the spacer then is the alloy just held on by the four nuts?

[addictedtosax]

i now have no idea wat ur spraffin about lol smileys/smiley17.gif better leave this to our resident experts

[addictedtosax]

the centre of the alloy aint gonna be resting around the hub, not in my case anyway, its not possible, but like i say this has got me confused now so im gonna leave it lol

[Tony_Jay86]

With out spacers the wheel would be up against the hub, but then you add spacers & they will then sit against the spacer which sits against the hub, then 4 nuts hold them in

[puzzledzippy]

i have 195-45-15 with 20mm spacers and they are fine,the only problem i had was getting locking wheel bolts to fit.

[addictedtosax]

With out spacers the wheel would be up against the hub, but then you add spacers & they will then sit against the spacer which sits against the hub, then 4 nuts hold them in

yeh i know that but wat they were sayin is that without spacers he allooy wud sit around the hub, which im sure it wudnt.

[VTaaRon]

no what i was saying is there is a hole in the centre of the alloy for a reason if you just put a normal spacers on then the alloy would just be held on with bolts not the support of the extrusion in the hub

[addictedtosax]

ahhhhhhh no there's a big hole in the middle of the spacers too mate! i thought thats wat u mite'v meant

[VTaaRon]

so was i right yours are just attached with the extended bolts?

[Tony_Jay86]

EDIT, there adaptors soz

Hole in the middle (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SAXO-PEUGEOT-106-3MM-WHEEL-SPACER-SHIMS_W0QQitemZ8004264598QQcategoryZ14771QQssPageN ameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)

[VTaaRon]

there to convert a 3 stud tho what i think i need are theses http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8002771 994&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1 tho i missed the end of the auction! hubcentric spacers that have an extension in the centre to act as a built in spigot and provide that support

[Sean]

contact the person who sold you your wheels and they'll sort you out.

*edited*

[VTaaRon]

na i bought them private i was gutted i missed the end of that auction i could have put the wheels on as soon as i got them in the post !!

[VTaaRon]

hes a quick pic i did an example of what i think i need note the extended centre on the spacer:

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b267/VTaaRon/DSC00495.jpg

[C2_VTR]

yeah I had some alloys on my saxo that had 20mm spacers on and the spacers I had had an extended bit in the middle so they were a bit like lego pieces.... they cliped onto the alloys and then in turn would attach to the hub the same way as alloys did.

Not sure how strong that would have been but with the bolts it was enough to hold them on my car!

[Graeme]

i have 22mm spacers on my alloys and i have no probs (touch wood) just remember to get longer bolts!!

[VTaaRon]

yeah my picture is actually wrong i read up about them you bolt the spacer onto the hub the bolt the alloy onto the spacer thats on the hubcentric ones anyway? do you all just use flat discs? surely that way you get wheel wobble? and the bolts could sheer straight off?

[C2_VTR]

My ones looked exactly like the ones in your drawing and as they sort of cliped onto the wheel I supposed thast was strong enought to help the bolts stay in place!

I only know it looks like that because I tried separating them once and it was quite hard for the spacer to come off of the alloy wheel...

[VTaaRon]

yeah so you had a spacer like in my pic it didnt bolt onto the hub then you bolt the alloy to the spacer? did you just use longer bolts then?

[C2_VTR]

yep, it just had longer bolts to go through the spacer and attach the wheel to the hub. As I said before the spacer was sort of clipped onto the wheel and the spacer in turn would "attach" to the hub so it was stable when you put the alloy on the hub just before you put the bolts through...

[VTaaRon]

kinda like an extension to the centre of the alloy then? where did you get them from?

[C2_VTR]

These actually came with my alloys as they were bought for my saxo and were a ford fitment.... But I have seen some on Ebay before.... proper 20mm like the ones I had.

[VTaaRon]

yeah i was watching some but missed the end of the auction sold for a good price to damnit!! oh well i know now what im looking for just have to wait and see

[C2_VTR]

How much did they go for in the end?

[VTaaRon]

59 plus 7 p&p 4 20mm 2 3mm and 2 5mm think it was and bolts