Has anyone tried this yet? I think if I were to put spacers in the rear it would make the overall stance of the car look better. Just to bring the rear wheels out an inch on each side would do a lot for it looks wise. Would this cause any problems? They sell these spacers on ebay but the purpose is to change from 5x100 to 5x114. Do they have any that are justed stricktly to bring the wheels out a bit?

 

Depends on offset in the front and back... I was thinking about this, but we have a FWD car and people actually don't really "Appreciate" the look, when it accomplishes very little....

If you push the rear wheels out too much, (Without a wide body kit) you will most likely have to roll your fenders a bit to get it to work right...

The does belong in wheel and tire though....

 

I think H&R makes spacers..someone on the forums has some spacers, I just cant remember who.

 

I was thinking about doing 20mm in the back and 15mm in the front when I had stock wheels. ended up getting atermarket wheels, and still put 5mm spacers in the back. H&R does make them in 5, 15, 20mm - at least that's the one I researched. Spacers come with replacement wheel studs.

Knocking the studs out and pressing new ones in takes about an hour per axle. Best place to buy H&R spacers is optauto.com - make sure they have the size you want in stock, because 15mm and 20mm spacers are usually on backorder and take couple of months to get to you.

 

installing the new bolts on the rear hubs is a huge pain. once you remove the rear rotors, there is nothing to hold the hub from turning (e-brake is not functional with rotor off). i had to use a long torque wrench and a steel pipe to hold the hub in place.

 

Hmm. I just stuck a sledge hammer handle between the existing studs and pressed new ones one by one. Just don't knock out all of them at the same time - then you are in real trouble ;)

 

Just installed 20mm H&R spacers all the way around and I am astonished at how much better the car looks. It's 100 times better. I have trd springs/shocks and haven't had any issues with clearance or rubbing. I would recommend doing the front as well otherwise it might look weird with the back all wide.

 

Yeah the back took a while to do. It helps to have a impact wrech when installing the new studs. It's much faster and easier than using a breaker bar.

 

I would imagine this would slightly help handling too. The wider stance would help. Sounds like a ton of work though.

 

hence the existance of staggered wheels my friend......I think you can accomplish the look your going for with a staggered fitment wheel