5mm spacers

[Cliff R]

Hi all.

Sorry if been asked before I have a CR  and I am thinking I might put 5 mm spacers on the front after reading good things about fitting better turn in apparently.

No driving God btw.

I have seen a kit spacers and longer bolts design tek  from Design 911. Just under £90 

Just wondered if anyone had experience of fitting with makes and costs.

Any advice into would be most appreciated.

 

[Beanoir™]

26 minutes ago, Cliff R said:

Hi all.

Sorry if been asked before I have a CR  and I am thinking I might put 5 mm spacers on the front after reading good things about fitting better turn in apparently.

No driving God btw.

I have seen a kit spacers and longer bolts design tek  from Design 911. Just under £90 

Just wondered if anyone had experience of fitting with makes and costs.

Any advice into would be most appreciated.

 

I would highly recommend 5mm spacers on the front, it transformed my CR.  
 

I bought the spacers, but sourced bolts directly from Porsche.  
 

Some of those spacer packages from D911 use stainless steel bolts, hence my question in the thread last week

[Cliff R]

Thanks Nick so where would you suggest getting the spacers from?

Bolts from OPC ?

[Beanoir™]

5 hours ago, Cliff R said:

Thanks Nick so where would you suggest getting the spacers from?

Bolts from OPC ?

For 5mm I will go with the Design Tek spacers, in fact I’ll be ordering mine tomorrow.  Bolts I haven’t decided yet, I was very tempted by the Ti bolts but I suspect that’s just overkill.  Will probably go with slightly longer OE ones, either OPC or D911, whichever is cheapest 

[Cliff R]

9 hours ago, Beanoir said:

For 5mm I will go with the Design Tek spacers, in fact I’ll be ordering mine tomorrow.  Bolts I haven’t decided yet, I was very tempted by the Ti bolts but I suspect that’s just overkill.  Will probably go with slightly longer OE ones, either OPC or D911, whichever is cheapest 

Thanks .

Can you let me know which are the cheapest way to buy the bolts 

I see spacers come in black or silver guess it's a matter of which to choose my wheels are black decisions decisions. 

Cheers. 

[Lennym1984]

Hi, 

 

If you haven't already pulled the plug, I'd recommend swapping your bolts for studs. It makes wheel changes much easier and allows you to use/not use spacers whenever you want. 

 

I bought mtec studs and they have been fine (for both road and track use). My 5mm spaxers (which I actually use to correct the offset on an old set of track wheels) were just generic ones. I think they were about 25 quid

[Cliff R]

23 hours ago, Lennym1984 said:

Hi, 

 

If you haven't already pulled the plug, I'd recommend swapping your bolts for studs. It makes wheel changes much easier and allows you to use/not use spacers whenever you want. 

 

I bought mtec studs and they have been fine (for both road and track use). My 5mm spaxers (which I actually use to correct the offset on an old set of track wheels) were just generic ones. I think they were about 25 quid

Thanks 

Not pulled the trigger yet still looking at my options.

Cheers.

Edited August 22, 2020 by Cliff R