Are Wheel Spacers Dangerous?

We, car lovers, tend to look for rational solutions to the problems we face while we work on our cars. Sometimes, those solutions might not be the perfect ones, but they get the job done nonetheless. Moreover, these simple solutions tend to be lot cheaper and practical. Hereby, we check out a video in which a man decided to share his opinion and thoughts on why wheel spacers are of no harm to your car or your safety. In a previous video, he mounted the wheel spacers in one of his project cars, but immediately got flooded with comments on how they are not safe and are dangerous to drive with.

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Well, in reality they can be dangerous, but only if they are not mounted properly or they jiggle around when not secured in place. Once he got his wheel spacers, he immediately modified then and placed a ring that was smaller in diameter than the hole on the spacer, just so it could fit snuggly on the hub.



All you need is just couple of welds to get this done. Once you install the spacer in place and put the wheels back on, everything should be nice and tight and there should be no movement. Even though, in an ideal world, you would completely change the wheels, but that would cost you couples of thousands of dollars. Hereby, if you are not willing to spend so much money but you want to get the job done, get yourself a pair of these highly practical wheel spacers.