Automobile aficionados frequently utilize wheel spacers as a recognized enhancement to boost their vehicles’ appearance and performance. Typically positioned between the vehicle’s wheel and the hub ...

It can be tough trying to get just the right look for your car or truck. You find the right wheel, but it’s the wrong offset. It sits too far in or too far out. Maybe it doesn’t look right, or maybe ...

Walk into a tire shop with 20 mm spacers on your ride, and you might get the kind of look usually reserved for people who ask for tire shine on bald slicks. It's not personal — it's legal. Shops don't ...

What is a wheel spacer? It's just that: a mechanical component that spaces your wheel away from the original wheel mounting surface. They can be as simple as a cast or machined metal spacer that goes ...

There are two commonly used ways to fasten wheels to a hub: lug-centric and hub-centric. In hub-centric designs (see figure below), the wheel fits snugly against the hub which provides support along ...

So you finally found the perfect set of "ultra-rare" wheels, only to find the offset doesn't push them out as far to the fenders as you would have liked. Do you simply shed a tear and sell the wheels ...

More than one reader took issue with my stand against lug-centric steel rims for winter tires in a recent column. As we are pretty much smack dab in the middle of winter-tire season, and more people ...

Wheel spacers are a popular mod that transcends many different groups of enthusiasts. For example, off-roaders can fit larger tires on stock wheels by spacing the wheels outboard and away from rubbing ...