Spacers

[pj2001]

Sorry but what you are saying makes no logical sense at all. So what you are saying is a long say 70mm bolt is under less stress when trying to hold three sets of rotating masses together over a longer distance then a bolt at 35mm holding two rotating masses together over a shorter distance????

No, that's not what i'm saying - what i said was that 2 masses held together with a short bolt (lets say 3mm) will experience MUCH HIGHER FORCES across the bolt than if the same 2 masses are held together with a 20mm/2cm bolt. Especially when exposed to a variety of forces - not "just rotational" (if you hit a bump in the road at 70mph - the wheel will experience a variety of forces in a variety of directions) . Engineering specs and papers have proven this.

Actually for a bolt to maintain its full strength, it must be inserted by 2.5times its diameter. So for a wheel nut it would need almost 30mm projection into whatever it is fitting into.

Yup. Sounds good to me.

You are still using your standard wheel bolts that are going just as far into the wheel spacer as when it went into your wheel hub. The alloy wheel bolts are not getting bolted on top of the spacer/hub bolts but into there on threaded hole.

So each spacer is machined to the same spec/tolerances as the hub on the car to ensure that equal thread is engaged for each bolt? i can tell by looking at the spacer that this is not the case. The threads start at the spacer face - on the hub they do not.

I can see your point of few devonmikeyboy but i disagree with many of the points made. My point is this - before i bought or fitted a spacer i would want to be sure that my wheels were just as secure as the standard set up (i.e. i have not reduced the amount of thread "holding" the wheel in place - thus have not reduced the logitudinal strength available to the bolt).

PJ.

 

[RichieRich]

ok well ask the guy how long the bolts suplied are that come with the spacer then go take one wheel off put the bolt through it and measure how much goes through into the hub? measure the depth of the head of the bolt then that will have to be sunk into the spacer... should be in 5mm sequences?

 

[Scully]

Edbutler? You have the spacers advertised on ebay? So you bolt your original bolts into the spacer. these sounds much better, to me
so on the spacers there are ten threads, 5 to put the spacers onto the hub, then 5 threads for you to put your wheel on

 

[Ibiza 130 tdi]

Here you go mate - theyre zinc + gold/yellow chromate plated and seem very good quality indeed - a few friends and i have them and they are perfect!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/20MM-Hubcentr...yZ122154QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem

And its in Bridgwater!!! My town! Think I will be going there at the weekend! Top people at AC! £24.50 for 15mm spacers!!!! What a bargain!?!? I was looking at nearly £90 with Badger5! 5x100 is what fits the Ibiza isnt it?