Spacer how to right in your driveway.

[Rurounimidnight]

Its funny when people think spacers are unsafe to drive on.

[F3dzo]

The unknown has been the cause of fear for many throughout humanity... Whats it called nowadays?

[dori.]

Originally Posted by F3dzo

Yea I meant to torque them! I'll do it this weekend. 17x7.5 et48

wow, are you mad? I'd torque anything having to do with wheels right away.

anyway, I ask because there is always tons of FUD going around when it comes to spacers

[F3dzo]

Originally Posted by dori.

wow, are you mad? I'd torque anything having to do with wheels right away.

anyway, I ask because there is always tons of FUD going around when it comes to spacers

Fud? What's that?

Yea i should have torqued...

[BlaineWasHere]

Originally Posted by Rurounimidnight

Its funny when people think spacers are unsafe to drive on.

Well I've seen them fail, more than once. If they are torqued properly there is little risk, but you are adding an extra part to fail on a heavily stressed area. Would I run them on the street? Yup (and have)! Would I run them on the track? HELL NO!

[Entropy]

I would trust a "slip-on" spacer with longer studs over a "bolt-on" spacer. The amount of material that the lugs (the ones bolting the spacer to the hub) are gripping on to is really thin, not to mention it's aluminum.

[Mo707]

Originally Posted by CBR600RR

When you put the coil overs on don't park over the curb like that.

I hate it when I see people doing that in their nice cars and the front lip is meet millimeters above the curb.

I always park far from the curb. ALWAYS made it a habit when I was driving my first car.

[Khyron686]

Originally Posted by Rurounimidnight

Its funny when people think spacers are unsafe to drive on.

You open up to centering issues, clamping force issues, risk of low quality (not held to OE tolerances on surface smoothness/flatness), stress changes to hub area, not enough threads to secure wheel, failing wheel bearings...

But who cares, hellaflush is important yo!

Properly torqued they are not going to kill you, but the OP said himself he hasn't even used a torque wrench.

As long as the wheel, hub, and spacer are stiff enough to prevent flexing and loss of clamp force, the cause of most wheel stud failures is under tightened lug nuts (not enough clamping force) or over tightened lug nuts (the stud has been stretched past it's elastic limit, so the clamping force goes away).

(3-10mm is still meh but whatever - you can't defend 25+mm spacers, plus he'll probably be tempted to put another spacer on the spacer!)

:happy0180:

[Nepenthe]

Originally Posted by Khyron686

(...plus he'll probably be tempted to put another spacer on the spacer!)

This seems ideal to me. The more spacers you add, the more lug nuts are in play to spread out the load. Five hardly seems sufficient per wheel. Three, four spacers per wheel and you're spreading the force across twenty or twenty-five lug nuts per wheel, so each one is under only a small amount of stress. Like lying down on a bed of densely-packed nails versus only a few nails. Plus you can then have those wheels as wide as you want for the flattest cornering stance.

[ayau]

Originally Posted by Nepenthe

This seems ideal to me. The more spacers you add, the more lug nuts are in play to spread out the load. Five hardly seems sufficient per wheel. Three, four spacers per wheel and you're spreading the force across twenty or twenty-five lug nuts per wheel, so each one is under only a small amount of stress. Like lying down on a bed of densely-packed nails versus only a few nails. Plus you can then have those wheels as wide as you want for the flattest cornering stance.

[Phaedrus29]

Originally Posted by dori.

wow, are you mad? I'd torque anything having to do with wheels right away.

anyway, I ask because there is always tons of FUD going around when it comes to spacers

What's the proper torquing on our wheels? I think the manual says 89 ft lbs, but I'd like confirmation on that.

[Laika]

Originally Posted by Phaedrus29

What's the proper torquing on our wheels? I think the manual says 89 ft lbs, but I'd like confirmation on that.

Originally Posted by Jeff Lange

Pretty much every other Toyota model (save for M14 models like Tundra, Sequoia and Land Cruiser), use 76ft-lbs, but the FR-S uses Subaru studs with a finer thread pitch. 89ft-lbs is correct, as was mentioned.

Jeff

You're good to go! Sorry for missing your text earlier

[Asterisked Accolade]

I work at Discount Tire and we're not even allowed to work on the car if it has spacers. It's deemed unsafe.

[dori.]

Originally Posted by F3dzo

Fud? What's that?

Yea i should have torqued...

FUD = Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt

ie people possibly spreading mis-information about the subject.

The problem is that nobody can come of a consesus about if (or what kind of) spacers are safe to run.