[fastloop]

I'm looking to fit some spacers to my staggered MV3's winter wheels. I need to do this to clear my front AP caliper as it's very tight and the weights will hit the caliper unless I push the wheel out a bit. I was wondering what people are running without risk of rubbing.

My winter wheels currently have Vred's WinTrac eXtreme's fitted to them:
F: 225/40 R18
R: 245/40 R18

The plan was to go 12.5-15mm on the front and 15mm on the rear to keep them at the same width. It would be great if 15mm is possible on the front, but I have to consider this may actually become 18mm as my brake rotor is 3mm thicker than standard.

Anyone running 15mm all around with this setup?

[fastloop]

I should problably have posted in the wheels section given the lack of responses, but I found some other posts that said 15mm all around should be okay with stock wheels, so I went ahead and ordered the spacers.

I test fitted them today with my winters to see if everything would be okay and went for a test drive. Looks good and I don't think they will rub in any circumstances. I tried to find all kinds of scenarios to see if speed bumps, parking on kerbs would cause any rubbing, but everything looked okay.

The spacers definitely helps on the stance and look.

[parapaul]

How do the fronts look? I've got 15mm spacers on the rear, but nothing on the front yet - IMO they look OK as they are.

[fastloop]

Originally Posted by parapaul

How do the fronts look? I've got 15mm spacers on the rear, but nothing on the front yet - IMO they look OK as they are.

They look okay, but I wanted to keep the same stance all around and I needed the brake caliper to clear the weights. Without the spacer it would be a right mess as you can see from the pic below.



Pic of front:

[willhollin]

Could have sworn Floyd had no trouble fitting his MV3s back on after having the APs fitted. It was pretty tight though.

[fastloop]

Originally Posted by willhollin

Could have sworn Floyd had no trouble fitting his MV3s back on after having the APs fitted. It was pretty tight though.

Might have been possible with a slightly narrower weight, but it would be very tight and I would be worried about contact with the caliper.