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What are peoples view on this I have some nice aftermarket alloys to go on my car but they need spacers so will need longer wheel nuts and I've been looking around and seems to be cheaper to do a stud conversion but is it any good?
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Done it to mine, no problems so far, makes taking the wheels on and off so much easier.
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Providing you go for quality stuff, there is no difference from using a standard bolt mate
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Sound will They be ok with the spacers on I've never used spacers before so I'm just kinda guessing atm lol
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What size spacers? Anything over 5mm and you will be best with hubcentrics and if you going 20mm id get the bolt on type, so two sets of bolts, one for spacer to hub and one for wheel to spacer.
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Not sure what I need was going to go with 10mm. Will my wheels shake at all with not not having the center any?more?
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Depends how good you are at fitting wheels. If the wheels have tapered bolt holes you can tighten them up lugcentrically, if you're handy with the spanners you can get them bang on centred. I ran my XXR's without hubcentric spacers and never had any wheel wobble.
You'll get people moaning that they need to be hubcentric etc but that's a lie. The wheel is held on by the clamping force of the bolts/nuts. The hubcentric lip just centres the wheel.
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defo agree with pellowe here...but for the diyer keep hubcentric and be safe
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Oh I see I understand abit better now I always bin told that you need the center bit!