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Ok I just bought a set of Enkei RPO5`s and the reccomendation by Enkei for a set of 18`s was a 25 offset! Now in hindsight maybe I should have got the 10`s....http://www.enkei.co.jp/jp/products/wheels/rp05/fitting/index.html

Well we fitted em up yesterday and yep they were way too far in the guard for my liking. Moneys been handed over so I`m stuck with them for now. We put 20mm spacer on the front and 15mm on the back so now they fill up the guards.

Ok the workshop they did a 4 wheel alignment before the spacers were put on. I got back to the shop and we decided it would look better with the spacers. Anyway after driving home I found the car tracking alot so what I am wondering is would the alignment be affected by the spacers or is this just a fact of using spacers. They are good high quality spacers. Or have a just blown a wad of cash and bought some dud rims.

Would a new alignment be in order..

I`ve attatched a before and after alignment settings..image 1 is before..post-43319-1214875383_thumb.jpg

image 2 is after post-43319-1214875398_thumb.jpg

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Mate I`m not quite sure what you mean by `spigoted` as for the spacers I`m pretty sure they hubcentric..I`ve attached a pic of what mine look like..mine are similar to these, just different brand. Most of the jap blokes I know here use em..

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When Hamish says 'spigot' he is referring to hub rings. I at first didn't realise what he was talking about either. hahah

Hub centric spacers are useless without hub rings.

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Those things. They can come in plastic as well. They just rest on your hubs and your wheels/spacers rest on them. There will be less strain on your studs.

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Cheers...

I`ll pull a wheel off tomorrow and have a look..

One question I still have is if the all the settings for wheel alignment was done before spacers fitted will things be outta wack now spacers are fitted , I`m not sure on this at all..

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Cheers...

I`ll pull a wheel off tomorrow and have a look..

One question I still have is if the all the settings for wheel alignment was done before spacers fitted will things be outta wack now spacers are fitted , I`m not sure on this at all..

You don't have to pull the wheel off to check if there are hub rings, you should be able to see them unless you've got the caps on the wheels.

There shouldn't be any need to get another wheel alignment as far as I know.

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Cheers guys...

Just a bit bummed cause the wheels look great and was trying to avoid this problem with offset. Not sure yet but may look at selling the wheels here or sending em back to Oz for sale and get a set of 10"s instead.

So that brings me to my next question would the tyres I have now 18x265x35 be ok on a set of 18x10 rims??

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