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Installed my Hubcentric Ebay AL wheel spacers today

Old 06-12-2010, 08:02 PM
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This post is for the guy like me who didn't want to spend $200+ on the Spider wheel spacers. Read these forums for a week searching and learning about what spacers to pick. In the end picked the nice deal on a set of 4 spacers on Ebay for about half what the nice blue ones would have cost. A little concerned about not going mainstream but was pleansantly surprised that the spacers when they arrived looked no differnt than the spider spacers other than not being blue. Even had the hub lip on one side and hub chamfer on the back side. No pictures as there are plenty here and wanted to comment more on my opionion of the Ebay spacers.

So got them in, they look great with the stock 16 x 7in option 5 spoke aluminum rims. Even on the 245s I am currently running. Looking forward to when I can slap on my future 285s before this winter. The tires just slightly past the fender. Nice stance.

And I am so glad the spacers had the hub lip, would have hated trying to remount my wheels over lug centric spacers.
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Are they billet or cast?
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Machined and polished just not blue
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Just looked up the same spacers I purchased. In the ad, the picture shows lugcentric spacers and no mention of lug or hub centric. But the ones I got definitely are hubcentric as the spacers slid perfectly on the wheel hub followed by my rims onto the spacer hub lip, just like the popular blue ones, nice fit.

Sorry no pics at the moment. Had one buy erased it. Will try to take one after I remove the wheel to check torque down the line.
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Who made the spacers?
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I don't know, Ebay?
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Originally Posted by Widewing
Who made the spacers?
Are they U.S. Made or Chinese? If Chinese, be advised that Chinese made 6061 aluminum rarely meets the aerospace specification for the material.

Did you use threadlocker compound (Loctite or equal) when installing them?
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Originally Posted by berjepalon
I don't know, Ebay?
Ebay doesn't manufacture anything....

I caution everyone to treat wheel spacer choices like your life depends upon it...

Because, it does.
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Do you have the URL or site from ebay?

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