how safe are 15mm hub adapters????

[Jayt]

i have been looking at several ways to fit a very expensive set of wheels i foolishly bought just before i changed my car on a whim, to my leon...

the options are hub adapters, or a hub conversion.. my only question is are a set of 15mm pcd adapters from fk racing safe for a daily driver? i know i should go for the 20mm ones but they will cause the wheels to fowl and i dont want that.....cheers for the help guys..

 

[mrcoyote]

Bit confused to what you mean by hub adapters? Do you mean spacers or something else?

 

[UncleFester]

I'd be guessing the wheels have a slightly different PCD to the car ..... and the adapters needed are 15mm thick.

I run 16mm rear spacers and 10mm fronts - i would not want to fit wider than that on the front using the current offset ( around 35mm i think) as the wheels are on the very edge of being too far out of the arch.

 

[Jayt]

well uncle, do you have any trouble with the wheels fowling in the arches,

as far as the adapters are concerened basically it is a pcd adapter, the wheels are a 5x112 and the hubs are 5 x 100, so what you do is bolt this aluminium ring in and then bolt the wheels to it. but i have seen it said they are too thin to be safe on a car used everyday and i should go for a set 20mm thick as they are mucho stronger........ obviously i dont want a wheel flyiong off and going faster than my car can......

 

[Jayt]

they are thses ones....

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Wheels-PCD-Ad...ZWD1VQQ_trksidZp1638.m118.l1247QQcmdZViewItem

 

[nick-barnes07]

seem expensive

 

[Jayt]

funny thats about 25 quid cheaper than europeancar parts and other places normally sell for 105, but if anyone on her speaks german and has five minutes to spare i could order them for 80 euro off the fk automotive website.

 

[olaf]

They will be expensive as they are conversion spacers not hubcentrics.

Think most H&R conversion spacers are over £100 a pair.

 

[ibizacupra]

conversion spacers dont usually come in les than 25mm thickness.... else how do they loose the bolt head and allow sufficient thickness in the material, strength wise?

 

[Jayt]

think i might buy them and if one fall off then i know its a bad job wont i, the 15mm fk ones i think are tuv approved so i doubt they can be that bad, and its not like there going on a lambo or something fast only a dirty diesel,.....

conversion spacers dont usually come in les than 25mm thickness.... else how do they loose the bolt head and allow sufficient thickness in the material, strength wise?

i know that they use special bolts to connect these on.. but it was the lack of material that concerened me as well.

 

[m0rk]

that really assumes that TUV approval is little more than ISO doesn't it

Does it mean that the spacers have had material failure analysis performed? or just that the company that makes them has a quality manual?

or somewhere in between

 

[herb2578]

i have been looking at several ways to fit a very expensive set of wheels i foolishly bought just before i changed my car on a whim, to my leon...

the options are hub adapters, or a hub conversion.. my only question is are a set of 15mm pcd adapters from fk racing safe for a daily driver? i know i should go for the 20mm ones but they will cause the wheels to fowl and i dont want that.....cheers for the help guys..

are the wheels 4 or 5 stud????

 

[Leigh15]

are the wheels 4 or 5 stud????

the wheels are a 5x112 and the hubs are 5 x 100

That'll be 5 stud then!