wheel spacers

[hertsbiker]

oi! a quick question;-

Do wheel spacers;-

* mess up abs or traction control

And how much wider can you go before the w/bearings get knackereD?

cheers, Carl.

[JSG]

Sorry mate, they don't fit Bikes

[hertsbiker]

ho ho !
it's for the 307 - for a number of reasons, not least, to make speed cushions "invisible" !!!!!!!

C

[GreenV8S]

quote:oi! a quick question;-

Do wheel spacers;-

* mess up abs or traction control

And how much wider can you go before the w/bearings get knackereD?

cheers, Carl.

1 No, they sense off the hub not the wheel.

2 I depends, it's the offset that does the damage so if you fit wider wheels and then use spacers to restore the offset, they're actually improving things.

[adrianr]

If you're talking about using the same wheel/tyre and just moving it outwards a bit, then you'll muck up the relationship between the tyre contact point with the ground and the steering/suspension pivots. I would expect the steering to feel really strange, especially under braking.

Should be OK in a straight line though
AdrianR

[Paceracing]

Word of warning.
Many wheel spacers on the market just slip over the existing studs and the wheel bolts on afterwards. If the car is driven hard you run a serious risk of snapping the studs when the suspension becomes heavilly loaded.
OMP does a spacer which is of much better design. Basically this spacer bolts to the hub and the lip on the hub centre engages with the spacer. The spacer itself also has a lip or shoulder for the wheel centre to mount on.
Basically the force transmitted from the wheel to the suspension utilizes this shoulder. The wheel studs should NEVER bear the load of the wheel and are only designed to prevent the wheel from falling off!!

Jas.

[nmlowe]

quote:
ho ho !
it's for the 307 - for a number of reasons, not least, to make speed cushions "invisible" !!!!!!!

C

What are "speed cushions" ????

[bikerkeith]

Reminds me of my attempts to customise an ancient 105E van many years ago. I dropped a bigger lump in, then to help it get around corners I bolted on wider wheels, which in turn needed spacers and extended bolts, which in turn meant hammer work on the arches to stop the tyres fouling. Yes, they did chew up the wheel bearings but after replacing the bearings the new ones lasted OK. Happy Days!

[hertsbiker]

It was only gonna be 5-10mm per side.

Speed cushions? you mean you haven't found this nasty little bit of "traffic calming" yet??!!

SC's are vile ramps that damage your car, while allowing lorries and buses to speed past schools.

I want the wider track, so it makes them transparent!

Carl

[hertsbiker]

It was only gonna be 5-10mm per side.

Speed cushions? you mean you haven't found this nasty little bit of "traffic calming" yet??!!

SC's are vile ramps that damage your car, while allowing lorries and buses to speed past schools.

I want the wider track, so it makes them transparent!

Carl

[nmlowe]

What, so they're just another name for speed bumps?
Or are the something totally different?
In which case, I haven't seen one.

[JohnLow]

Speed cushion is like a speed ramp which only covers the middle third or so of the lane. Either only one wheel passes over it, or both but on the outside slopes.

I usually go for the one wheel over the top as I don't like the wheels being forced apart by the slopes. I don't know if it will put the tracking out (or even damage the bearings) etc by running the wheels over the slopes at the sides, but i suspect that it won't do any good. Trouble is, running one wheel over the middle throws the car towards oncoming traffic or the pedestrians so sometimes there's no choice.

What Hertsbiker is after is making the car's wheels far enough apart that they will pass either side of the cushion.

John.

[JohnLow]

I've thought about this a bit more. Maybe the deflections from the car being tilted over are more than those from the side slopes of the cushion pushing out.

Almost certainly both are trivial compared to cornering at speed.

Shut up, Low, get back to work.