Wheel spacer problems

[RBBJ325is]

They moved them on the site, you have to look under wheels for the 320i. Come to find out they were not for E30's. But they took them back and I got my new Remus exhaust.

[Massive Lee]

Hi RBBJ325iS

Your problem is very common when using spacers that are too thick to allow the wheel to use the original hub to center, and not enough thick to have a hubcentric ridge for the wheel. Also, not all wheels are made similar. Some will have a small bevel, and others will have a mich bigger one. Arghhh.

You may want to contact Passdanachos for whom I designed some hub extenders made for e30 front hubs. That allowed him to use thich spacers and still have enough hub to center the wheel.

Passdanachos had a local CNC shop machine his hub extenders. Turner also makes some, but only for 5 bolt hubs.

[passdanachos]

I had a local shop CNC me a set of hub extenders that replaced the existing hub covers. Now my wheels don't wobble at all driving. I am running 3mm spacers.

[passdanachos]

Oh! I owe to Lee who helped me out on this one! I was going to go with thinner calipers for the big brake kit, but he suggested fabbing up some hub extenders.

[eurotrash]

i use 5mm spacers in the rear with 0 problems. when you mount the wheels make sure to finger tighen the lugs then move the wheel like your checking the wheel bearing to get it centered on the lugs and tighten um down. also the 12mm h&rs i was running for my gti were hubcentric. not sure if there is a dif between bmw and vw spacers but i just use the vw 4x100 h&r trac spacers(20mm front on my ix weaves and 5mm to match the rear euros) they were all i could find at the time and prob cheaper.