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Wheel Spacers

Post by charger » Tue Apr 17, 2012 1:03 pm

Bits for vits sells these £66 a set that is so cheap, anyone one how good they are?
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Re: Wheel Spacers

Post by Tramp » Tue Apr 17, 2012 3:54 pm

Are they the cast ones? Most people run them but the billet ones are better. I've not bought spacers from bits4vits but I have ordered stuff from Dave there before, hes a nice chap and all the bits I've bought from him have been top notch, if you have questions you can find him on difflock, his username was k9rdj - I think!
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Re: Wheel Spacers

Post by Anton » Tue Apr 17, 2012 4:03 pm

You mean these?

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I have a set of those I took off a pair of Sammy axles I robbed off a junker before it got weighed in. Personally I wouldn't trust them - they feel flimsy. If it's an offroad only toy, you might be ok - but I personally wouldn't put them on a road car - they're HOLLOW for goodness sake!

Save your money. Get some wheels with more backspacing instead. Less to go wrong.
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Re: Wheel Spacers

Post by twiss » Tue Apr 17, 2012 5:00 pm

I've had the Grayston wheel spacers on mine for 4 years now with no problems.

I got mine 2nd hand for £20 for the set though :)
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Re: Wheel Spacers

Post by Tramp » Tue Apr 17, 2012 5:08 pm

I'll be honest, when I was looking at wheel spacers I went for the billet one, they looked much stronger and just felt better, I got mine from bits4vits and they were great (whilst I ran them)
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Post by ROBBIE » Tue Apr 17, 2012 6:11 pm

Same as Twiss been running the Graystons for about 4 years got them from Bits4Vits and never had any problems
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Re: Wheel Spacers

Post by charger » Tue Apr 17, 2012 7:51 pm

Anton wrote:You mean these?

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I have a set of those I took off a pair of Sammy axles I robbed off a junker before it got weighed in. Personally I wouldn't trust them - they feel flimsy. If it's an offroad only toy, you might be ok - but I personally wouldn't put them on a road car - they're HOLLOW for goodness sake!

Save your money. Get some wheels with more backspacing instead. Less to go wrong.
Have you still got them & wanna sell them?
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Re: Wheel Spacers

Post by Anton » Tue Apr 17, 2012 9:34 pm

charger wrote:Have you still got them & wanna sell them?
I do and I would, but I had to cut one of the extended studs off, so it's only got 19, not 20. I have no idea whare you'd get a replacement.

Probably bitz4vits...

Find out how much a replacement stud costs, and if it's not £silly then I suppose I can't see any reason not to sell them to you - I'll take photos so you can see what condition they're in.
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Re: Wheel Spacers

Post by twiss » Wed Apr 18, 2012 9:58 am

Bits 4 vits do the spare studs yes... £2.20 each

http://www.bits4vits.co.uk/store/vitara ... d_131.html
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Re: Wheel Spacers

Post by charger » Wed Apr 18, 2012 12:44 pm

Cool how much you want for the spacers then dude
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