MOBOY

I posted a thread earlier about this but I didn't get much of a response. I just put on Konig Imagine rims (18 x 7.5) on my maxima and I am a little disappointed with the look of the rear rims. The front looks good...a little tucked in ...but the back is about 1" inside the wheel well. Take a look for yourself....

Will spacers really affect my handling? Someone told me to get 10mm hubcentric spacers from HR....anyone else know of a good place to get spacers for the maxima?

victor

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so that 5 and 15 would be the right combo for the stock 17's on the SE???

MOBOY

If you use 15 mm spacers on the rear...do you have to get extended bolts...or can you use the same bolts?

Yo...you quoted some prices...do you have these in stock...or did you get them from a company over the internet?

Norm Peterson

Yes. But with your different tire size on wheels of different diameter, width, and probably offset the effect of adding the spacers by itself is not certain. At a minimum you need to know what effect the new wheels/tires had on the track width (measured between the centers of the tire treads) as compared with stock. But generally, if you push the outside edge of the tires outward by much more than half the increase in width that you got by going to wider tires, you'll end up with somewhat twitchier behavior on roads that have noticeable ruts in them from heavy truck traffic. Torque steer under hard acceleration in 1st & 2nd gear will be more evident as well. It doesn't take too much track width change for this to become noticeable.

Translation: if you've gone from 225/50's to 245/45's, you can keep the vehicle track dimension the same if the outside surface of the 245's have moved outward by about 10 mm per side relative to where the outside surface of the 225's were located. Whatever twitchiness then remains (and there will probably be some) is then due to the stiffer, wider tires.

If a wider track is the only change, there is no guarantee of better ultimate cornering grip either, since a wider front track reduces the roll stiffness of the front suspension. That results in more body roll for any given lateral acceleration, which in turn puts the already critical outside front tire further onto its outer shoulder sooner.

Norm