Are wheel spacers safe???
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High quality wheelspacers, the kind that bolt up to your axle first are no more dangerous or cause any more stress to your axles then would a wheel with less backspacing. Anyone who tries to tell you otherwise doesn't know what they're talking about and I have yet to hear a single good or specific explanation as to exactly how they are worse. Just to be clear, the cheap-o spacers (the kind that you can get at PepBoys and are sandwiched between your wheel and axle using the existing wheel studs) are in fact EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. These cheap-o spacers leave little thread for your lug nuts to hold onto and can fail. DO NOT USE THESE!
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Originally Posted by J-VET
I have the spidertrax and check the torque every time I rotate the tires. I have yet to find a loose nut.
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Originally Posted by Jaraxal
I'm new to the Jeep scene, so please forgive my ignorance. What does the wheel space do for you? I assume it allows you to put bigger/wider tires on?