any thoughts on wheel spacers to allow larger than stock tires without a lift?

[bushnut]

I've got a 2000 pathy with rusty fender wells i was figuring on trimming them, then i thought i might have room for bigger tires, then i thought about the strut in the way in the front....solution wheel spacers, or am i just out to lunch?

[ahardb0dy]

As long as you have the fenders on still wheel spacers will make things worse. They will move the tire out further and cause them to hit. A tire mounted on a wheel with the proper offset will clear better than a tire on a wheel with the wrong offset, adding spacers is like running wheels with the wrong off set.

[Precise1]

I generally advise against using wheel spacers as they can cause balancing issues, parallelism issues and some wheel studs arent designed for having a load cantelevered, etc. You are far better buying rims that maximize wheel size and position for the tires you want to run, with or without any suspension lift. I don't know the answers off hand, but I'm certain it is easily located in the R50 section.

 

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