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Old 06-26-2018, 10:21 AM   #29
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1) there is little difference in result, be spacing out wheels via spacers or via different wheel offset. Both routes can work, both will have similar results/effects. Properly installed hub centering spacers are safe enough and may let one save if one already has certain wheels and changing them out to ones with right offset is not an option in budget. Or if wheels of certain design are available only in offsets, that space out wheels insufficient to get them flush.
2) among ill-effects of spacing out too much might be: heavier steering and more tendency to follow road defects due change of scrub radius, and lesser life of wheel bearings due more load on them from spaced out wheels, thus "pushing" on bearings with lever of longer length.
3) but if one has already bought & installed wide body kit, it's obvious, that getting certain looks change takes priority over everything else, so one should be willing to live with/pay for ill-effects, and certainly car with widebody AND tucked in wheels much more so then in stock car will look butt ugly in eyes of everybody. Just stomach it and space out wheels to get them flush again with whichever spacing out method you choose but now to width of widebody arches.
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