wheel spacers

i need to buy some wheel spacers but don't know which ones to buy 30mm or 60mm the 60mm are cheaper

60mm look better, but if you got big tyres too they tend to flick s**t up the side of the truck all the time. I have a set of 60mm on my 200 defender and you cant go through a small puddle without getting it up as far as the window! looks the nuts though!! so if you dont mind washing mud off every 10 minutes and just want looks i'd go for 60, but if your after a balance between the 2 i'd say 30 is better! HTH

i personally have 35mm spacers and i wouldnt go bigger than that,combined with the 36" tyres theres a lot of extra strain on the wheel bearings

you will be replacing bearings more often than if you didnt have spacers

wiltshire landyman said:

you will be replacing bearings more often than if you didnt have spacers

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WLM - Did I get that right? You say your spacers are prolonging the life of your wheel bearings?

I thought it was a universal truth that spacers = greater bearing stress.

Unless I'm mistaken thats what WLM said.

or just buy 10j off set rim's

Shifty1962 said:

Unless I'm mistaken thats what WLM said.

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correct...i think he had been on the shandys when he read it

Defo depends on the wheel offset. With the alloys I have the 30mm were not really enough - tyres (235's) still well within the wheel arches. But with steel wheels you get much more offset so 30mm's probably plenty.

Whoops. Confused as usual. Makes sense now that a re-re-read it. :crazy:

Like said above, it depends on your offset. My 285s are about 10 mil out of the arches with no spacers.