8mm spacers, wheels not centered

[Varinn]

Ordered a set of 8mm H&R spacers from a local supplier, the centerbore matches and the lug pattern is the same but because it only leaves 2-3mm of hub sticking out they do not work with any of my wheels as all of them have a beveled mounting face. Are there any options to make this work before I take them back to the place I bought them from? I should have done more research myself, but at no point did they say these required flat backed wheels for install despite speccing them out for me.

I was thinking maybe there is some form of centric ring available that I could add on after the spacer to center the wheel.

Spacers I got look like this

[bmw325csi]

Hubcentric spacers start at 12mm I believe

[ncbrock]

you need hub extenders, but I have yet to find any for 4 lug e30's. Only know of them for e36+

[fatphos]

I had to make some for 8mm spacers... since I'm picky about anything relating to footwork. If the wheel you're using has the same center bore as the car, then it should have enough surface for the rim to sit on. I did this on my Work XSA set up.


My later set up is similar to this, however the center ring is flat with the spacer, these were made for to run SSR MK1's, but it gives you a idea.

[Madhatter]

Nothing in 8mm will come with anything that will give you more hub to locate your wheels on. Not really their fault that you have wheels with a beveled edge.

Have two solutions I can see, run a hubcentric spacer, but will be thicker.

Or, (this could be real easy depending on your bore size of your wheels) like the above poster, run the spacers plus a hub ring to locate the wheel.

I run a pair of 8mm spacers, but I swapped out to studs on all my hubs. Also ran a hub ring from 72.6mm to 57.1mm as the bore of my wheels is generic to larger vehicles, the rings were a perfect tight fit, so tight I cant even remove them now without a chisel or something. Reduced the bore down and also gave a nice flat surface to mount flush on the hub (wheels also had a bevel, it's kind of normal these days for wheels to be machined like that though, have a look at the front of an E30 hub and you'll see exactly why).