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Wheel Spacers

colinbythesea

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Had spacers on my 944, factory fit I think. They just go between the wheel and hub so take of the wheel and bolt it on with the spacer in the way. My question would be why wheel spacers? I stand to be corrected on this but unless you compensate for the extra 6mm with wheels with a different offset your suspension angles will be altered affecting handling. You might need a full wheel alignment after fitting. Also putting the wheels further out will strain the bearings a bit more, not sure how significant this is on Boxsters.
 
Hello All,

I just bought some 6mm wheel spacers, is it best to get a garage (ATS or maybe KwikFit) to fit them or is it okay and simple to to do it myself?

Thanks

 
If you can change a wheel you can fit the spacers yourself. [;)] Just worried if 6mm is too big to fit without using longer wheel bolts, I think the 550's have 5mm spacers fitted as standard so there not going to do much damage to your handling but I'd check about the bolt length.
 
I bought the 6mm spacers from porscheshop.co.uk and they said longer bolts are not not neeeded. I got ATS to fit the spacers for a drink, it took them over an hour to do all four!
 

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