Wheel Spacers

gus · Post by **gus** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 6:29 pm

The dude that had my car before me had spacers put in to make his 18's fit. before he sold it to me he took the 18's out, put back on the stock wheels with the spacers left in.

Im doin a bit of reseach about gettin some nice rims and one of the dudes i was speaking to said spacers were highly illegal and extremely dangerous.

Should i be worried?

kid_dynamite · Post by **kid_dynamite** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 6:51 pm

Spacers are illegal.

They increase wheel track, and that is good for handling, but bolt on spacers are potentially unsafe and illegal. (Weld on ones are a bit dubious too).

Take them off, especially if you have stock rims. You don't need them.

If you want to buy a set of aftermarket rims in the future, just make sure they are the correct offset - you won't need spacers at all then.

Post by **Bennoz** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 2:57 am

Quite correct. Spacers are illegal unless equiped by the manufacturer (which they were not by mitsi) I use them thou

http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au/registration/ ... 9_rev4.pdf

For all wheel / tyre info

Spud · Post by **Spud** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 5:52 am

Is this the same in all states?

FTO338 · Post by **FTO338** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 12:48 pm

Pretty much the same in every state. Just different fancy wording.

Spud · Post by **Spud** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 2:26 pm

hehe thanks FTO338. So what your saying is for each state they were all written by the same bloke, Richard Cranium.

FTO338 · Post by **FTO338** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 3:53 pm

hhahhhhaaah this Richard Cranium
http://richard.cranium.wasarrested.com/hatemail6.asp

or the surf/skate brand ehehehehehe
http://www.richardcranium.net/flash.html

Spud · Post by **Spud** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 5:15 pm

hahaahaha

That clothing brand is doomed from the start lol. For the love of all things good and pure why???!!!