Wheel Spacers

[davyk31]

My Msport is running on the 20" wheels and I bought a set of 19" SE wheels for winter use. Primarily I chose that style as they are a lot easier to clean on the cold winter days.

Fitted today and as I didn't really take much regard when buying about offsets and narrower wheel width they now obviously sit in quite far. I'm guessing spacers is the answer to my problem.

Do spacers need to be fitted all round or just to the rear, fronts do not look anywhere near as bad.
What size of spacers should I need, my wheels were the 11x20 M Sport wheel, offset 35 it seems, I now have the style 213 in 10x19 offset 53.

Where should I buy and also have read that you can get spacers that bolt to original hub and then use original bolts and others that need longer bolts to be used, what's the best option?

[shadrack]

ive just put 40mm spacers in the rear of mine to get my wrong offset 22s to sit right, http://www.1010tires.com/wheeloffsetcalculator.asp put you old wheel spec into the calculator and also your new wheel measurements into it and it works out the size spacers you need to get the new wheels to sit right. i used h and r pro spacers and they are excellent you cant tell their on, the ones where you use a long bolt to go right through are rubbish if you need anything big, but first you need to know what size you need,

[davyk31]

Thanks that site was really useful. Results with new wheels are :

Front Inner CLearance 5mm more
Outer Position Retract 21mm

Rear Clearance 5mm less
Outer Position Retract by 31mm

So are my assumptions correct that to get back to the previous look with my summer 20s that I need spacers of 20mm on front and 30mm on back. Is there any issue with just doing the rear although that may look a bit odd but would keep the costs down.

Seems the ones that bolt to the hub are the best option, where is the best place to buy these?
Probaby would have been easier to buy 19" M Sport wheels rather than the SE Style 213 wheel but I fancied the easy cleaning of the 5 spoke wheel. Would perhaps still change if someone had a decent set of immaculate 19" M sport and someone else wanted my SE wheels which also are immaculate.

[shadrack]

yeh your calcs will be spot on, i just did the rears on mine i had the same problem as the x5 i have now has the arch extensions on like yours and my old one never like the se, i had to put 40mm spacers on, i would get the h and r or eibach spacers where you bolt them to the hub then bolt the wheel to the spacer, the front will probly be ok without them, i got my spacers from german ebay as i speced them in uk got part no etc, the company then said they would be ages as had to come from germany, ne way they were £45 cheaper from germany including the £30 postage!!

[davyk31]

Thanks again for the help, German Ebay sounds a good option, not sure my German is great though!! Do you have any link to the place where you bought from?