Spacers installed

"duurtlang" (duurtlang) 11/19/2015 at 14:59 • Filed to: None

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I ‘needed’ them for my winter wheels and was dumb enough to not treat the screws with anti-corrosion stuff. So they’ll have to come off again. #beginnermistakes.

Pictures of the car with the wheels upcoming, it was almost dark when I installed the last wheel. I do have some before pictures.

Still though, they do make the 1980s Peugeot 205 GTI 1.9 alloy wheels with winter tires look better on my ‘00 406 coupe. The 6j wheels from a 1980s subcompact with 185 width tires are rather skinny for a midsize 2000 coupe which came with 7j wheels from the factory, and due to the slight difference in offset (6 mm) the wheels were to far inward as well. The 20 mm spacers help.

Before the spacers the skinny wheels were too far inward, which had this effect on the look. Without the awesome of the Volvo.

This is my car with these wheels but without spacers in 2013. While the alloys are of a 1980s Peugeot 205 GTI, the tires have a lot of extra side wall to keep my speedometer accurate and highway revs down.

Last winter (also without spacers), with my actual 205 GTI (1.6):

I now own 3 cars in on 205 GTI wheels. Is this becomming an obsession?

SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman > duurtlang 11/19/2015 at 15:11

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that’s not a spacer, it’s a block of metal

duurtlang > SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman 11/19/2015 at 15:23

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Well, had it been made of jello it wouldn’t be very effective.

DasWauto > duurtlang 11/19/2015 at 15:25

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I assume you got longer lug bolts to make up for the spacer, right? Also, are those attached by the rotor retaining screw? That’s a good idea, not something I’ve seen before.

Ash78, voting early and often > duurtlang 11/19/2015 at 15:26

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Face it: You secretly wanted to join the stretch & poke movement with those spacers. Now to get some 255mm tires on some 7” wide wheels....

duurtlang > DasWauto 11/19/2015 at 15:28

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You’re right, I’ve used special longer bolts and yes, the spacers came with special longer rotor retaining screws. It’s probably due to the width of the spacers. Very narrow ones can be mounted with the original bolts, very wide ones need their own bolts. Mine are 20 mm a piece, which is intermediate I suppose.

duurtlang > Ash78, voting early and often 11/19/2015 at 15:34

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I do think I’ll turn heads at a stancer gathering. Their heads might even explode, seeing someone equiping a modern-ish car with vintage small and narrow wheels that aren’t exactly filling the wheel wells.

MonkeePuzzle > duurtlang 11/19/2015 at 15:47

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*drool*

duurtlang > MonkeePuzzle 11/19/2015 at 15:53

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Agreed. I do the same thing when I drive it. Which, sadly, isn’t during winter. It’s stored inside now. Anyway, I’ve recently bought the convertible version of that car ( 205 CTI ) as well, as a winter project .

KSEGGFTW > duurtlang 11/23/2015 at 16:08

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I love that the 406 Coupe was designed by Pininfarina. *drool*

duurtlang > KSEGGFTW 11/23/2015 at 16:39

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Agreed. I’m a bit of a Pininfarina fanboy myself. Besides the 406 coupe and the red 205 GTI in the picture above I also own a 205 VTI and 306 convertible, both also designed by Pininfarina.