Is anyone running .75 inch or bigger wheel spacers on stock trail edition wheels?

Looking at options for a slightly more aggressive stance with my stock trail wheels. Wondering if anyone had experience with bora or spidertrax. I am concerned with a 4 offset and 1.25 inches being to aggressive. Also i am not sure if the trail wheels have the cut outs to support the spacer bolts sitting flush with the wheel?

 

Naw. Don’t do wheel spacers, your wheel bearings will hate you. Best to go with 0 or -10 offset. Less of a chance for wheel
bearing failure.

 

I think the TE wheels have a perfect offset. Can anyone verify what it is? I have searched around but come up empty...

 

I this it’s a +4. Ideally 0 to -10 would be perfect imho. It still sits inside the fender. It’s more noticeable w a lift as well.

 

Umm…a 1” wheel spacer and a 1” diff offset is the same thing to the wheel bearing.

 

My thoughts exactly. Everything I’ve read states that spacer failures are due to either buying cheap branding or improper installation procedures.

 

Anecdotal of course, but I’ve ran spacers for 10’s of thousands of miles from high horse power street cars to rock crawlers. Always name brand and I’ve never had an issue.

 

The laws of Physics disagree with your statement.

Your wheels bearings have no opinion on how the extra load is attained (spacers vs wheel offset).

 

Agreed.

Wheel spacers are exactly as dangerous as wheels. Improper install and maintenance will cause equal issues with both.

Vehicles, in general, are put together with thousands of bolts ... 6 extra ones at the wheel wont make a difference.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4qfWknMJMA

Say NO to wheel spacers.

 

0 and -10 offset

 

Ahh yes, the latest example of confirmation bias.

The exact same thing will happen with improperly installed and maintained wheels without spacers.

 

Ahhh yeah indeed, as evidenced by the millions of stock wheels that fly off on a daily basis.
The highways are littered with examples of this and news stories are so common no-one takes notice anymore

 

So now that we have established yet another post about safely of spacers. Is anyone running them on trail edition wheels and if so trying to decide either .75 or 1.25 inches. I’m good with a slight poke but I’d the trail wheels are +4 then the 1.25 maybe to much. Also does anyone know if the te wheels have space to Clear the spacer lugs?

 

I would go with the .75 with your wheels being a +4 offset. I have the off road wheels with a 1.25 spacer. It gives me around a -6 offset. It required some trimming and slight cutting to not rub off roading with a 33” tire.

 

I am more interested in seeing why you think this accident was caused directly by wheel spacers?

 

Well is it 0 or -10??
It can't be both

 

You do realize that the same model wheel can come in a variety of offsets... no?

 

I'm pretty sure the Trail Edition wheels are all the same offset. Not positive but pretty sure. Why would a model specific wheel come in multiple offsets... Go ahead and enlighten me

 

He and I assumed TE was in reference to TE37's... not Trail Edition.