Turbo Lag wrote:As someone who has messed around enough with wheels now, on a sedan you're actually a lot more likely to scrub at the rear than front. The front has a tonne of space if you have coilovers until you start going for much larger tyres (which I assume you're not going for).
A 10mm spacer is effectively making your current offset +55 (I think these are the stock wheels offset) to +45. If you're running the standard 215/40/18 you should clear rear guards just fine. If you're running =>225 tyres you may rub in which case you'd just want the guards rolled.
Extended studs of decent quality in theory are fine. A spacer effectively does the same thing a lower offset wheel however the difference is you lose thread for the lug to hold on to. You could be left with a lug just holding onto 1cm of thread instead of 2cm etc. You''d also have to invest in new lug nuts too, likely open ended or much longer.
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If you're worried about the rear sitting too far inwards you might just want to look into a staggered wheel set up instead (assuming tyre size remains the same).
Yeah, I've got coilovers, but it's the space between the wheel and the guards that's of interest here. Happy to stick with the 225/40/18s I'm running. But the standard GT-B wheels and tyres are 215/45 on +55 - and fitting 10mm spacers would
reduce the effective offset to +45.
I wouldn't consider adding spacers without longer studs unless they were under 5mm; the hubcentric spacer set I found includes longer studs (Ichiba, if that means anything). I'm not real keen on the idea of spacers, but if I reckon staggered wheels are silly and I want to fill my guards and the gap isn't the same, then I have to wonder if there's a way to do spacers right, especially since it's just on the back...
Yowie wrote:You could always try cambered wheel spacers:
Fully sick, bro!
I guess those were made for taking photos? Actually come to think of it, I should probably have all my suspension geometry looked at before anything... the fronts have barely any camber, seems a bit weird.