If there a way i can tell if the spacer is hubcentric? A friend of mine had purchased them recently and wanted to put them on his maxima but i dont know how you would be able to tell.



There should be like a lip on the spacer.. which the rim would sit on ...i assume right? see that lip on the spacer, thats what makes it hubcentric, or am i wrong?

How do u tell if so.. its a ring that sits on the hub so when the rim comes in contact with the rotor ...its not the lugs that hold the rim in place ...but the ring makes sure its centered?

im completely confused

 

i am the friend btw ... lol

 

the hubcentric part is how that spacer will sit onto your hub. It is hub centric if it is centered. The ring or lip that is exposed is for your wheel to sit on, sometimes depending on the wheel you may need some rings to ensure that the wheel is centered around your spacer also.

 

soooooo
are these hubcentric or not?
the other side of the spacer looks the same no lip or anything

pics are hosted as always by my friend and org member Nailz420

 

"the hubcentric part is how that spacer will sit onto your hub. It is hub centric if it is centered"

the h&r spacers are centered around your hub when you put them on your car, therefore they are hub-centric

 

As the self-appointed spacer expert here -if in doubt, check my Cardomain site for a view of my custom, 12mm CNC machined, hub centric spacers- et me comment here:

The first spacers -rather large and thick, methinks maybe either 20 or 25mm- shown in the first post could be hub centric if the ID of the big center hols is 66.2mm. In other words, if the spacer hole fits snugly over the hub, it's hub centric on the axle.

The second part of hub centricity is how the wheels fit on the lip of the spacer itself. In the large spacer -again the first pics- the lip on the spacer is now acting as the center of the hub on the axle does -it acts to center the wheels because with the spacer, you are placing the wheels out so far beyond the original hub that the spacer needs to act as the hub itself to properly center the wheels.

So, you need to measure the OD of that lip that extends out from the spacer. If that lip measures 66.2mm (the same diameter as the wheel hub) you have a wheel-centric spacer.

And BTW, you dont need a micrometer to figure all this out. To see if the spacer is centric to the wheel, just remove the wheel from the car and fit the spacer into the wheel from the inside, just as it would be if it were on the car. If it fits relatively snug to the hole in the wheel, you have spacer-to-wheel centricity. Do the same for the hub, meaning, fit the spacer on the axle flange over the brake rotors. Again, it fits snugly over the hub, you have spacer-to-hub centricity and all should be well.

The last spacers posted look like 5mm spacers. These are so thin that the wheel hub still sticks out far enough beyond the spacers such that nothing is needed. Meaning, if you are running stoxk, OEM wheels they will fit fine as they are and if you are running aftermarket wheels that already have hub centric rings, you are fine too. In short, those thin 5mm spacers need nothing added to properly center a wheel on the hub.

My custom spacers: http://www.cardomain.com/id/elgalo

 

now thats an answer
the reason i was asking..
i got the rims ...but they didnt come with the hubcentric ring.. so what i wanted to do was get the hubcentric spacers ...so i wouldnt have to get the hubcentric ring for the rims...
obviously the 5mm spacer doesnt have the lip for the rim to sit on ...so i guess i will still have to get the hubcentric rings anyway..
am i making sence?

 

Thanks.....I have been told I get too wordy sometimes.....I guess I really do. LOL!!!!

Yes and yes! Meaning, yes, u make perfect sense and yes, you will need the hub centric rings if the wheels's ID is not 66.2mm. Most aftermarket wheels have an ID in the 72 to 74mm range, that being large on purpose so they can fit over a variety of axle hub sizes; centricity then being achieved with a hub centric ring that adapts and matches the wheel to the axle

So, get centric rings with an OD to match the wheels and an ID of 66.2 mm to match the diameter of our Maxes hubs and you'll be fine....

Good luck!

 

nice .. thanks. whats your recomendation? get teh hubcentric spacers ? or i can put on the 5mm spacer and get the centric rings ..
where can i get the rings from?