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Tech Forum => Workshop => Topic started by: tris on January 07, 2011, 08:50:50 PM

Title: 1.5 inch spacers
Post by: tris on January 07, 2011, 08:50:50 PM: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Suzuki-SJ-Vitara-Jimny-WHEEL-SPACERS-38mm-WIDE-MONSTER-/220707118322?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item33632b5cf2 (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Suzuki-SJ-Vitara-Jimny-WHEEL-SPACERS-38mm-WIDE-MONSTER-/220707118322?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item33632b5cf2)

I'm presuming these would fit a cj?
Would spacers this wide put strain on the studs?
How do they get them VOSA / M.O.T approved?

Any input guys?
Title: Re: 1.5 inch spacers
Post by: isle of man on January 07, 2011, 08:55:52 PM: Indeed 5x5.5 pcd

Not sure about the other statements!!!
Title: Re: 1.5 inch spacers
Post by: Bulldog67 on January 07, 2011, 08:58:39 PM: accordin to jp mag they fit without any issues as long as they are fitted properly in the first place and checked after the first 100 miles, and then periodically, dont believe there is any mot issues, never heard of that, as long as they dont push ya tyres out to far
Title: Re: 1.5 inch spacers
Post by: tris on January 07, 2011, 09:08:45 PM: I didnt think there wold be issues in mot but with these guy quoting 'VOSA approved' I thought there may have been new rules & regs on having spacers.
Title: Re: 1.5 inch spacers
Post by: Mike Pavelin on January 07, 2011, 10:18:21 PM: Quote from: tris on January 07, 2011, 08:50:50 PM
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Suzuki-SJ-Vitara-Jimny-WHEEL-SPACERS-38mm-WIDE-MONSTER-/220707118322?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item33632b5cf2 (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Suzuki-SJ-Vitara-Jimny-WHEEL-SPACERS-38mm-WIDE-MONSTER-/220707118322?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item33632b5cf2)

I'm presuming these would fit a cj?
Would spacers this wide put strain on the studs?
How do they get them VOSA / M.O.T approved?

Any input guys?
They should fit, apart from that he's talking bollocks. :wsmile: I've asked him to explain. I have some HMRC approved ones for an XJ/TJ for sale here...... :003: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=370469603830&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=370469603830&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT) Mine have been extensively tested by NASA and The MoD and definitely weren't made in China. :eusa_liar:
Title: Re: 1.5 inch spacers
Post by: Dave The Sparky on January 08, 2011, 07:47:43 AM: Nasa??? they have wheelspacers on the space shuttles then
Title: Re: 1.5 inch spacers
Post by: Mike Pavelin on January 08, 2011, 08:45:53 AM: This is the reply on what constitutes 'VOSA MOT approval'.................... "Hi, basically, they are the best wheel spacers on
the planet for the Suzuki 4x4 range,,, or so im told by our customers."
Not really the same is it :wsmile:
Title: Re: 1.5 inch spacers
Post by: Bubba on January 08, 2011, 09:18:05 AM: could do with a man from vosa asking for the type aproval cert nos ............big T you out there
Title: Re: 1.5 inch spacers
Post by: tris on January 08, 2011, 12:37:40 PM: I agree Bubba, Its all well & good these people Quoting that they are approved by a profesional body, but when your trundling down the road in your jeep on a summers day Kids in the back with the roof down & the spacers fail & your front wheels fall off !!
I'm sure VOSA / MOT would certainly like to get invloved then !!! :jpshakehead:
Title: Re: 1.5 inch spacers
Post by: Mike Pavelin on January 08, 2011, 04:53:51 PM: The VCA (vehicle certification agency) Handle type approval in the UK anyway.
Title: Re: 1.5 inch spacers
Post by: Dave69 on January 08, 2011, 05:15:37 PM: VCA to be honest wont be intersted in approving wheel spacers, they can do it for a company if asked but will charge them a fortune.

like with any wheel bolted to the hub, the spacer nuts will need to be checked for tightness after 100 miles then periodically after that. for piece of mind you could use a nut lock fluid to reduce the chance of the nuts undoing from vibration. Wheel nuts are checked in the same manner but no locking fluid used
Title: Re: 1.5 inch spacers
Post by: Mike Pavelin on January 08, 2011, 05:45:45 PM: If you really have a worry on about it, go for something with TuV approval. That's the German type approval that everything has to have if you bolt it to your car in Germany. Over there, if it ain't TuV approved for your motor, it ain't legal. They don't do that kind of thing over here yet.