@@chalachasca I have them on the front still and I checked for tightness last week, was still holding up to 85 ft-lbs that I torqued it to! I took off the rears since it was making it a little too wide and it was having problems clearing the plastic trim without crazy camber. I have school in the summer so I wont be home with the crv to cut down the trim in the rear like I want to but I will eventually get to it and get the spacer on. I just have to find some time to cut it down and seal the gap between the fender liner and the trim to prevent it from potential corrosion in the winter from the salted roads in Ontario
you said I damaged the OEM wheel because I didn't notice that there wasn't enough clearance between the OEM studs and the OEM wheel cavities (shown at 13:10). Easily avoidable*** will this happen to all wheels? I have 19s on my CRV, how to avoid the damage?
@@EsenbekAliev_ This only happens to wheels when the cavities aren't deep enough. I'm not sure if your 19's will clear it and the only way to check it is to test it yourself. You would have to either shave some material from the stud or shave it from the wheel cavity to make it bigger to avoid the damage/contact if that makes sense
You can use an impact wrench with no problem if you do the final tightening with a torque wrench, issue is that you can over or under torque your spacers when a specific torque spec is crucial to proper operation and safety
Another reason why I dont use a impact wrench is because my sockets are too thick to fit inside the spacer bolt holes too and I dont want to risk damaging it that way somehow
Quick suggestion. Rather than messing your car more than what you currently did (wheel alignment, suspension, wheel damage), just buy a slightly different tire size that has a lower profile. Also, bridgestone is one of the worst tire for non-stock setups, because the sidewall expands waaaay too much.
Running a lower profile does not retain stock diameter and it usually makes the car look ridiculous. The bridgestones were stock, changed them out to firestones recently and I have a new 20" setup Im looking to run in the summer
Good head's up about not using excess pressure to tighten the lug nuts or over tighten up of the lug's during installation process great 👍 video 📸 thanks for the video 📷
Mostly cosmetic, to push the wheel out more so that it does not sit inside the wheel well as deep and look funny. I wouldnt recommend installing them if youre thinking about functionality because it will be one extra thing that can go wrong
I took them off a while ago because it was giving me too much camber in the rear. I still have them lying around in storage and they didnt seem to have any cracks or sign of being dangerous. The whole time I had them on they seemed to do the job with no vibrations or anything abnormal. That being said, getting brand name stuff is always going to be better
I think so because the studs would have stuck out more than on the 20mm spacer. This is assuming that the 15mm spacers also have their own studs. It really depends on your wheel and if the cavities on the mounting side are deep enough for the studs to clear
Im sorry man... The spacers did NOT ruin your wheels bud. You did. You have to know what you are doing. You were sitting too low for that tire size and offset if what the spacers brought the wheel too. I worked with tires and wheels for almost 2 decades, I've never messed that up. There is math behind that. No guessing. Always check all fitment. Even spacers against wheel. Not all wheels are designed in the back like yours.
No need to be sorry. Im the one installing them so I acknowledged that I damaged my own wheels and its not the spacers fault. This video is just showing people to not make the same mistake I did. Most if not all spacers with studs will probably present the same obstacle. Other than seeing it on RU-vid, I have to learn some of these things from experience here because I am not the automotive field of work
If the instructions are telling you not to use an impact wrench because it could damage the spacer isn’t that bad? There’s another video on RU-vid showing someone hitting a spacer with a hammer and it shattered. To me impact wrench on this spacer will damage it in the same way. Could be a clear indication of bad quality.
They're telling you to not use an impact, because an impact is not a torque wrench, and it's much easier for someone to damage things with an impact, especially now a days with high torque impacts readily available everywhere.
Look online and youll see that spacers with their own studs are made like this. It was user error on my part that resulted in this issue, not a product design flaw. I am still running them on my car today and I genuinely believe that paying significantly more for a brand name one that is "better quality" isnt worth it for me because im convinced this specific set of amazon spacers are built to the same standards. They also clearly state in the instructions that you need to cut the oem studs down if they are too long for the wheel cavities to clear, which I didnt so because I thought it cleared (again, user error on my part)
I used cheap steal. And made my own and it wobbles pretty bad. When I go over 80 mpg it stops wobbling. I never torque anything. That's for stupid people.
