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H&R Springs & Bora Spacers Installed!
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Just installed my spacers and it looks so much better. I think it handles better too but hard to tell. I saw someone posted a question about how to keep the front rotors from spinning while torquing so I figured I would share what I did. Didn’t have anyone to hold the break so I had to improvise with a stubby screw driver. Worked perfectly. Hope this helps.
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Just installed my spacers and it looks so much better. I think it handles better too but hard to tell. I saw someone posted a question about how to keep the front rotors from spinning while torquing so I figured I would share what I did. Didn’t have anyone to hold the break so I had to improvise with a stubby screw driver. Worked perfectly. Hope this helps.
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Just installed my spacers and it looks so much better. I think it handles better too but hard to tell. I saw someone posted a question about how to keep the front rotors from spinning while torquing so I figured I would share what I did. Didn’t have anyone to hold the break so I had to improvise with a stubby screw driver. Worked perfectly. Hope this helps.
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In reality, you never want to add spacers. It’s a band-aid solution to not buying proper rims.
No mechanic (well any good one) would recommend spacers, ever. It puts suspension components under stress at different angles that they are designed for. Even if it’s a small change.
That being said, their probably of failing is small but when it does (and it definitely happens) will be probably quite spectacular lol. If you tow anything, you’d be a complete fool to run spacers, especially aluminum ones. You are creating a fulcrum point on the weakest part and that weaker part is the one that’s going to fail.
I’ve been in the auto industry a long time, have seen lots of spacers fail, even really good ones. Enough to never putting them in any vehicle I own.
It’s a “at your own risk” type thing. They risk is pretty small but it’s still there.
No mechanic (well any good one) would recommend spacers, ever. It puts suspension components under stress at different angles that they are designed for. Even if it’s a small change.
That being said, their probably of failing is small but when it does (and it definitely happens) will be probably quite spectacular lol. If you tow anything, you’d be a complete fool to run spacers, especially aluminum ones. You are creating a fulcrum point on the weakest part and that weaker part is the one that’s going to fail.
I’ve been in the auto industry a long time, have seen lots of spacers fail, even really good ones. Enough to never putting them in any vehicle I own.
It’s a “at your own risk” type thing. They risk is pretty small but it’s still there.
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I've had spacers on multiple vehicles including 2.5" on Jeep Wrangler Unltd., 2.5" on Jeep GC Trailhawk, and now 1.25" and 0.75" on my ST. I think TheGov't is probably speaking the truth but I've only had good experience with spacers going off-road and regular towing. No issues whatsoever. Maybe if i owned the vehicles longer than 3 years things would have been different but I abused them quite a bit during the years i did own them.
But the Canadian in me said sell the spacers and order rims instead. 
