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[Tiago@VRSF]

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[tc535i]

Originally Posted by FCobra94

FALSE!! Seriously, where does half of this ridiculous information even originate...

Do you work at OPs tire shop, by chance

it's very hard to fit a lip on anything 10mm and smaller, so a lot of those (especially cheap brands) are not hub centric

after 12mm basically every brand has enough lip to maintain hub support

of course, after a thousand games of telephone, people come up with some interesting stories

[Mudd46738]

I just bought 12mm for the front and 15mm for the rear. The only reason I even thought about spacers was after a brake job the front rims rubbed the caliper. Of course these are after market rims. I bought Beyern rims because I thought they made BMW rims. I guess I was wrong. Now for my two cents. I have done a lot of reading the past few days and have read numerous places that if you mess with the front you need to also mess with the rear due to oversteer/understeer. Why would mm's make such a difference. Is this correct or just more BS? Also, should I worry about the groove in the rim that the caliper made?

Originally Posted by Mudd46738

I just bought 12mm for the front and 15mm for the rear. The only reason I even thought about spacers was after a brake job the front rims rubbed the caliper. Of course these are after market rims. I bought Beyern rims because I thought they made BMW rims. I guess I was wrong. Now for my two cents. I have done a lot of reading the past few days and have read numerous places that if you mess with the front you need to also mess with the rear due to oversteer/understeer. Why would mm's make such a difference. Is this correct or just more BS? Also, should I worry about the groove in the rim that the caliper made?

omg...please keep reading before ordering parts in the future

Originally Posted by tc535i

it's very hard to fit a lip on anything 10mm and smaller, so a lot of those (especially cheap brands) are not hub centric

after 12mm basically every brand has enough lip to maintain hub support

of course, after a thousand games of telephone, people come up with some interesting stories

Dude, seriously, search around. It would literally take 10 seconds worth of googling to prove yourself wrong. 99% of 10mm spacers come w/ hub centric lips. The only ones that don't are specifically made to be flat:
http://www.rogueengineering.com/rogue/WH/WSPACER.html

The only time someone would run into issues with 10mm spacers that have a hub centric lip are those that have a taller than typical front hub (as addressed in the link above).

But you are correct. It's obviously physically impossible to fit a hub centric lip on a spacer that is smaller than 10mm given that there isn't enough thickness there to allow that to happen. That's why God created hub extenders; for the front of RWD cars, at least.

[Mudd46738]

Originally Posted by FCobra94

omg...please keep reading before ordering parts in the future

So which part did I not read? I read this post front and back ten times I bet.