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Originally Posted by Impureclient
I'm interested in hearing about those people that have died from using "cheaper" spacers.
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I don't know of anyone who has died, but I have seen people who used cheap bolt-on spacers have the lugs on the bolt-on spacers shear during hard braking. I've also seen a car get black flagged in for wheel wobble and it turned out their slip on had cracked and disintegrated which luckily was caught before anything truly bad happened... they had slightly damaged wheels and needed new spacers, but otherwise no harm. Both could have been catastrophic under different circumstances.
Generally speaking, if I'm putting something on a car going on a race track, I'm using the highest quality parts available. Taking unnecessary risks is just dumb.
Spacers are perfectly safe if they're properly made and properly installed... but otherwise they can be problematic.