I've done a lot of searching and have read both positive and negative reviews on spacers. I know Spidertrax are the best/safest/best built. Id love to hear any positive and/or negative feedback. Reason i ask, I am going to 37"x13.50 toyos on the 29th and have -12 offset 4.5 inch backspace rims. I was considering either steering bumps or spacers…was leaning more towards the bumps as I just don't know how to feel about spacers….the jeep does not get a lot of miles put on it as I work from my home office everyday and when I travel to clients I take my wife's MDX….on a daily basis the jeep gets used "around town". I don't wheel to hard, light trails, the beach, etc……

Any thoughts or feedback appreciated.

Bobby

 

Spacers are fine and SPidertrax or whatever doesn't have any secret recipe. Just make sure whatever you get is like that one.... that is, spacer bolts to the hub, then the wheel bolts to the spacer.

You'd be best to find another solution.... but you'll be fine like this.

I am running a set until I take the time to redo my front links. They put me out at 1.5" of back spacing and I feel 100% confident in them.

 

check em often and you'll be fine. A spacer bolted to the hub is no different then a wheel bolted on in my opinion. I've run spidertrax in the past and now G2 spacers and i havent had issues with either.

 

I run spacers on my duramax and am thinking about some for my jeep. The only thing I would add to the above is if you even think something is not right, pull the wheel off and just check to make sure they are tight.

 

If you do go with the spacers, learning from my mistake, do use the lock tight (tite - sp) given to you with them. I didn't use it the first time around and had a spacer come loose on me. Then my whole tire started wobbling bad. Luckily I was close to home so I drove real slow back to the house. I pulled the tire off and found the spacer was loose. So I fixed it properly. I pulled all my other tires off and found all 4 were loose. I took all off and added the lock tite and haven't had a problem since.

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Ebay $80.00 for all for 4. Don't believe the hype. That is all.

 

Is this the route you went? Were they hubcentric?

 

Bought my Spiders used from forum member for around $100. I have been running them for several thousand miles. No problems.

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And.....that's bullshit. I've got a pair of ebay ones with subpar studs in them. I ended up shearing a couple studs with just a ratchet- no impact.

Experience- I've got wheel spacers on my corvette and the jeep. If they are properly installed and periodically checked (I wouldn't say "often", just periodically) then they're safe. It's just like installing any other wheel and most problems people have come from *operator error*. The other small percentage of problems is subpar lug studs- but I covered that. Don't buy the spacer based on the quality of the chunk of aluminum because it would take more force to break a solid chunk of aluminum than it would to break the stud.


I also use anti-sieze on my wheel studs......90k miles without a single issue. Same setup on my TJ- 50k miles and one issue when the lug nuts of the spacer were not torqued properly. 30k on the corvette and the only issues there were inferior wheel studs that I promptly replaced. Zero issues after that. Some folks are simply afraid to admit fault and think it's easier to cry that spacers aren't safe and will cause certain death but that simply isn't the case.

 

I run them and am perfectly confident in them. I don't re torque mine I just put a socket on them to see if it is loose. If not, move on to the next nut. If I find one loose, I remove all nuts, reapply loc tite and torque back down. In my opinion, they are perfectly safe.

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