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    Hey All,

    I recently had some new wheels & tires installed on my car. The front 2 wheels did not clear the calliper originally and I ended up having to buy 2-10mm spacers in order to clear the caliper.

    Now the car has a heavy vibration/shaking in the steering wheel between 85km-100km.

    Is this because I am running a 10mm spacer in the front, and no spacer in the rear? Or is this the normal course when you are running a spacer?

    Thanks.

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    cause they are not hub centric

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    Well they charged me for hubcentric rings, so I was hoping everything was nice and flush in there..

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    Originally posted by BavarianBeast
    Well they charged me for hubcentric rings, so I was hoping everything was nice and flush in there..
    probably just rings for the spacer itself. i doubt it actually makes the wheel hub centric. for slip ons to be hub centric all the way around they are going to be custom pieces that replicate a new hub lip for the wheels to seat on.

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    My bet is the spacer too. They most likely sold you some no names. 10mm would be an adapter right? If yes, I would definitely verify the quality of them. Way too many horror stories from these.
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    Well I picked up the spacers from Concept 1, who said it was specific for my car. Kal-tire installed them..

    So I guess I will have to live with that vibration unless I want to spend a ton of money on custom spacers? Oh well. Thanks.

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    Ya unfortunately, you're missing the hubcentric rings.

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    Originally posted by BavarianBeast
    Well I picked up the spacers from Concept 1, who said it was specific for my car. Kal-tire installed them..

    So I guess I will have to live with that vibration unless I want to spend a ton of money on custom spacers? Oh well. Thanks.
    go talk to vex... they have a guy that does the custom ones and they are not much more than brand names. but yeah its tough to say if its 100% the spacer design without seeing them or the fact you trusted kal-tire to do anything right. use urbanx like the rest of us!

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    Good spacers/adapters arent cheap but it's way cheaper than replacing tires from uneven wear or worst case having a rim fly off

    another thing too is it can just be a shitty mount/balance job but Kal will put the blame on the spacers for sure.
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    I know, I know! Use Urban-X! NEVER use Kal tire.

    The only reason I brought the spacers back to them is because they kept telling me some sop story how they would make things right. I thought I would give them the benefit of the doubt since I was dealing with their branch manager. Lesson learned.

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    Originally posted by Rocket1k78
    Good spacers/adapters arent cheap but it's way cheaper than replacing tires from uneven wear or worst case having a rim fly off

    another thing too is it can just be a shitty mount/balance job but Kal will put the blame on the spacers for sure.
    Can a rim really fly off from this? I am a total noob when it comes to wheels/suspension.

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    Originally posted by BavarianBeast


    Can a rim really fly off from this? I am a total noob when it comes to wheels/suspension.
    if you buy bolt-ons with SHITTY lugs that are not torqued properly... its possible. but slip-ons... probably not. unless your lugs are not long enough and they nuts only have a spin or two on them

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    Originally posted by ercchry
    cause they are not hub centric
    H&R Hubcentric or don't bother imo Not worth cheaping out..consequences will never be the same!

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    Originally posted by Sugarphreak


    We all make this mistake once, haha. They have become the new Sears of the tire world.

    Kal-Tire is the only place that sells Nokians... I really wanted to go that route, so I bought them there, then went to another shop to get them put on
    Good call. They offered to mount and balance them free of charge so I figured why not. Wishing I would of spent the extra money to have them mounted properly. Thanks for the input fellas.

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    I've used hub-centric slip on spacers before. The spacer itself comes with a larger center bore and a separate hub ring is used to center the spacer, and then the wheel onto the spacer. It seemed to work pretty well.


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    ^^Those are adapters and if the proper ones are bought(hub centric and good quality) they work fine but the majority of the issues is from people cheaping out and buying the so called "universal" no names. Just google and you'll read post after post of peoples wheels falling off while driving.

    I think bavbeast has adapters too because a 10mm spacer is pretty thick no?

    Either way I wouldn't just keep on driving around with a wobble especially on a new set up. Jack up your car and take a wheel off to see if in fact theyre hub centric spacers/adapters. If you're not sure take some pics and post them up.

    Another option would be to pay another shop to check the balance on your tires.
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    Originally posted by Rocket1k78


    I think bavbeast has adapters too because a 10mm spacer is pretty thick no?
    10mm isnt usually thick enough to bolt on. but there are three things here.
    1 slip on spacers
    2 bolt on spacers
    3 adapters (which are bolt on spacers, with a PCD change)

    either way... same concept. hub bore and wheel bore must have tight enough tolerances to be perfectly centered

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    Bump. Just wanted to share my current situation as well.

    I bought some Rohana rims that don't clear the G37 Akebonos up front. Took them to Wheel Pros and they recommended 15mm spacers all around.

    They didn't have any one-piece hubcentric spacers in stock so they had to sell separate wheel adapters and then a set of hubcenter rings much like the Ichiba photo that DeleriousZ posted, and then some hubrings to bring it from OEM 66.1 to 73.1 bore.

    The only thing that I should have considered is getting a pair of H&R or Ichibas because they source their spacers from their Direct Auto Imports warehouse which look like universal products.

    Fingers crossed, I'm hoping that the 15mm spacers don't turn my G37 into a monster truck that looks like ass.

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