Wheel Spacers

Post by **Josh_PoloGTi** » Tue Apr 13, 2004 10:19 pm

Finally, after months and months of hearing people say "Josh, you really could do with getting some spacers for your rear wheels", I finally flipped yesterday and fitted some 20mm Hubcentric spacers to each of my rear wheels.

This is the result:

What do you think?

(oh, and I painted my calipers at the same time as the OE paint had gone Pink!)

carmadaaron · Post by **carmadaaron** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 9:08 am

were those spacers just 4 looks? if they were theyre doin their job

EddyH · Post by **EddyH** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 9:12 am

Looking good!

Great job on the calipers, fancy doing my rear calipers next?

Speedlaw · Post by **Speedlaw** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 10:05 am

Looking good. Is that 20mm a side, or both sides combined?

Post by **Josh_PoloGTi** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 9:53 pm

Alex: 20mm per side

Aaron: Just for looks, yeah, but they have made the back end feel totally planted!

Eddy: Erm... I'd rather chew my hand off! JK... It's not that hard.

Glad you all like them... I think it's made loads of difference.

polopowah · Post by **polopowah** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 10:13 pm

aye thats smart as!
red calipers look good, i've seen cars with red drums painted and they look toss!
-Ben-

Post by **Josh_PoloGTi** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 10:19 pm

Ben, they were red from the factory, but they went a bit pink after years of brake dust and wheel acid, so I thought I'd refresh them!

You're right. If you're going to paint drums, paint them black or gray.

Petrified · Post by **Petrified** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 10:20 pm

They do look dead smart!

I've been thinking of doing this to mine, painting the calipers red that is. And maybe with the spacers as it looks ace, and I have very similar wheels.

Trying not to Hijack... do you think it would suit the car??

http://www.tigerstyle.co.uk/poloforum/v ... .php?t=710

Cheers.
James.

Post by **Josh_PoloGTi** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 10:48 pm

Would look sweet mate!!

Petrified · Post by **Petrified** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 10:52 pm

Cheep mods are the best

well actually that's not true (1.8t...) but still.

Speedlaw · Post by **Speedlaw** » Thu Apr 15, 2004 11:02 am

Josh_PoloGTi wrote: You're right. If you're going to paint drums, paint them black or gray.

I've just painted mine black the other week. There's no point in drawing attention to drums IMnotsoHO.

Did you notice a difference in handling at all?

Post by **Josh_PoloGTi** » Thu Apr 15, 2004 8:47 pm

Yeah, handling is much better now. The back end just feels "planted"

D17NS X · Post by **D17NS X** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 6:18 pm

I had to paint my drums the other day, done them silver, they match my alloys and don't look to bad.

Thinking of doin the front ones blue, (the car is blue) wot do you think?? Josh did you take the caliper sp. off??

Dan

KarlM · Post by **KarlM** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 4:03 pm

Looking good.

Where did you get em from and do you know if they can supply porshe adpaters?

LAN's GTI · Post by **LAN's GTI** » Sun Apr 18, 2004 1:46 pm

Josh, what paint did you use to paint your calipers, I need to do my front ones as I have a new set on the rear and my front ones have gone a bit pink. Cheers