Dayum! :eek2:

 

wheel fall off?

 

Almost. Worst part was the bolt that held on the spacers broke off inside the spacer itself.

 

these are NOT ichiba V2s are they?

 

Noooooooooooo

 

gah damnz!!! he needs to be legit and get this hellaflush shiat!!!
http://fatlace.3dcartstores.com/WPN-R-x-HELLAFLUSH-Wheelspacer-Kit--15mm_p_522.html

 

my friend bought cheap 20mm spacers for his integra and is about to put it on. perhaps i should warn him?

 

I mean.. I only have proof of what happened. Im not saying its gonna happen to all "off brand" spacers. I just wanted to post these pictures up to see what it means to cheap out on the little things. These spacers didn't even look cheap.

 

now people can see why HR spacer cost 120 bucks for a pair. 120 bucks sounds a hell of a lot better then crashing and dying.

 

horrible

this spacer looks to me like the stock wheel studs sit taller than the spacer itself while installed? so when the spacer is mounted, the stock studs still protrude out. It's possible this set of spacer is designed for a vehicle with shorter factory wheel studs or intended to be cut by the installer. So the installer to me in this case, installed the spacer, noticed the stock studs were longer. The installer than still mounted the wheels and drove off without making it properly fit. I say installer error. Not faulty product.

Just my opinion from what I'm noticing. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. You get what you pay for, and sometimes you pay less so you have to do some extra work like cutting the stock studs!

 

this spacer looks to me like the stock wheel studs sit taller than the spacer itself while installed? so when the spacer is mounted, the stock studs still protrude out. It's possible this set of spacer is designed for a vehicle with shorter factory wheel studs or intended to be cut by the installer. So the installer to me in this case, installed the spacer, noticed the stock studs were longer. The installer than still mounted the wheels and drove off without making it properly fit. I say installer error. Not faulty product.

Just my opinion from what I'm noticing. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. You get what you pay for, and sometimes you pay less so you have to do some extra work like cutting the stock studs!

I am sorry that i blamed the faulty of the product. You are correct nighthawk04v. Now that you have pointed out the problem i see why and what was the outcome.

 

what brand is this? it's even hubcentric. hmmm...

 

Damn that's crazy. Sorry to hear your friend had to go through that.

 

Wow, never seen anything like that. Hope the only damage on his car was those wheel spacers.

 

you know... I wonder if the wheel was sitting flush against the hub? Maybe the wheel was sitting on the protruding studs, because it did not have the extra clearance in the back, and the installer may have known better?

 

I checked out his wheels last night and the wheels was protruding on the studs. He did not take note on the extra clearance.

Dammit! and I was already on the fence about gettin spacers... lol

Well, I would blame this all on my friend. Very stupid install on his car because he had steely with these wheel spacers. I just automatic thought it was the "ebay" brand because he did say he got them from ebay.

 

Dammit! and I was already on the fence about gettin spacers... lol

 

Why would you space out steelies??? haha, sry to each his own, just kinda made me "LOL"

 

Ugh, yeah.. thats what i said to him.. Fail.

 

So it wasn't the spacers that was faulty, it was the install. His wheels were sitting ontop of the protruding studs.... *sigh* I hope he's ok. Those wheel studs look pretty good too, doesn't really look like the generic ones.

 

wow, never seen that before.

 

Wow. Fail.

 

This thread needs to be retitled to "This is what happens why you let a moron mod his car".

 

All aboard the Fail Boat!