I ordered thedeep dish bullits from mustang tuning that come with the 1/4" wheel spacers. Are the spacers safe? No one will install them because of liability. Anyone have any trouble with them?

 

I had the same concern when I ordered mine, but as thin as the 1/4" spacers are, they really don't have any adverse effects. I have my old rims on right now because of the weather, but when the 18x9's were on, you really couldn't tell that the spacers were on there.

 

Good question. I tried to order some, but the shop that does all my installiontions insisted in measuring with the tires on and off to get it right looks and performance wise. I haven't done it yet, but it is going down.

 

I have the same rims. When i installed mine i double checked the amount of thread that sticks out past the rims with the spacers. You should have nothing to worry about. There is more than enough stud for the nut.

 

I've had 1" spacers on my rear wheels for a year now. No trouble at all, and they look great!

 

You need 6-8 turns of the lug nut. Any less and you need to get a E.T. lug nut which has an extra shank to reach down in the wheel and pick up the lost threads. They are completely safe when installed correctly.

 

O.K. This is going to be a Soap Box Issue for me. Grab your popcorn this may take a while. What I love about some of these wheel manufactures is their ability to come to market with a wheel without ever doing the legwork to get the fitment correct. Lets see you the customer payout $900 for your wheels but oh by the way, your going to have to run a spacer to get them to work because we can’t afford or just don’t want to have the proper engineering provided to make the wheels fit your car properly. Or we mass-produce the wheels and they have numerous crossover fitments we don’t have the ability or know how to do the finish machine work because were in the business to sell wheels not make every fitment, as it should be. My company has been in the wheel business for nearly sixty years now. We were and still are America’s First Custom Wheels. We were founded on the basis of the custom wheel the former owner and namesake for this business coined the phrase “Mag Wheel� as we were also The Original Mag Racing Wheel Company. All these newbie’s in the market are just that! They sell a few thousand wheels and move on. Now I’m not trying to make all you guys feel bad for buying the other guy’s wheels we cant make everything for everyone and don’t intend to. There are a lot of wheel companies out their (AR, WV, BS, BC, BW, OE & others) that are acting as though they have done it all and coat tailing on the accomplishments of others with “Counterfeit� designs. Counterfeit designs that look the part it is when it isn’t and hey you may have to run some type of modification to make these work.

O.K. Enough Said

We have a policy that a wheel spacer is safe up to 3/8 on an inch thick and with the proper thread engagement. I cases where proper thread engagement is not achieved we have had special lugs manufactured with XL & XXL ET shanks to achieve the engagement required. We also use these lugs in our wheels to obtain the maximum amount of engagement, as you can never have too much. One other issue to remember is if you end up doing the install yourself is to remove the clips from the rotors that the factory installed to keep them from falling off as the car was coming down the line. If you don’t you could end up with a wobble or your lugs loosing off. Also remember to re-torque your lugs after a few hundred miles as losing is prone to happen with new aluminum wheels. Enjoy your new wheel purchase.

 

Something else I didn't do......

Never heard this one before..... :scratch:

hags1

 

I forgot to remove those clips when I put spacers on my Jeep. Almost lost a front wheel one day because of it.

 

i have had them on my car for about 5000 miles and no problems

 

What clips, any pics?

 

I'm thinking about going with the eibach 30 mm on the rear (1 inch), anyone have any experence with these?

 

Correct me if I'm wrong here but I believe that the 1" wheel spacers (I currently have a pair on my rear wheels) are different than the 1/4" and smaller spacers that come with the mustangtuning wheels in that the 1" spacers come with studs on the spacers and their own lugnuts. You take the wheel off, bolt the spacer on independantly as you would a wheel, then bolt the wheel onto the spacer. But, the smaller spacers are just a piece of aluminum with slots in it to slide over the stock lug studs. As long as it's 1/4" (maybe 5/16") or less, I think you should be fine. There should be plenty enough stud there for the lugnuts to attach to.

 

Correct. From what i have seen.