I plan on purchasing wheel spacers for my G sedan. I am thinking of 20mm in the front and 15mm in the rear. Right now I have stock wheel lugs with wheel lock on each wheel.
With the spacers installed can I reuse the wheel locks or is it a completely different lugs.

Thanks

Gabe

 

I'm using OEM on mine with no issues.

 

What brand wheel spacers are you using

 

Darned if I can remember, they went on to ensure clearance for the BBK after I upgraded and I haven't looked back. Once I get new tires I'll be swapping out the rims and getting rid of the spacers and these rims. Sorry.

 

If you're using stock wheels you want to use stock lug nuts. If you're using aftermarket wheels you want to get aftermarket lug nuts. A spacer does not make a difference.

 

Ichiba, H&R, and B2Autodesigns (house brand spacer) are all decent hubcentric bolt on spacers. Be sure to use a 6pt socket (the spacer nuts round off easily w/ 12pt sockets) and tighten to 80 ft. lbs, recheck torque after a few hundered miles and every tire rotation.
Oh, and DO NOT use any threadlocking compound on the threads.

 

Are B2AutoDesigns better than the H&R wheel spacers. Or are they about the same

 

They're similar, haven't heard bad things about either set.

 

I can see why you wouldn't want to use any threadlock when mounting the wheel to the spacer - makes it harder to remove the wheel, but why not use it to mount the spacer to the car? What's the harm?

 

As long as you dont' use the RED thread lock, I think it should be fine. I'd like the added security of using the blue thread lock to mount the spacer to the hub. Also when you change your discs to make sure you clean off any of the old blue thread locker before reapplying it to remount the spacers.

 

There's folks that use locker and those that don't. One of the reasons is the brass nuts are easy to round off so any more torque needed to loosen them makes it that much easier to wreck the nut. And using the red locker you may need heat to break them and may damage the spacer.
If you want to use locker like mentioned above just a bit of blue is what I'd use. I've never had a spacer loosen once the torque was re-checked after a few hundred miles but stranger things have certainly happened
Also BE SURE to use a 6 sided socket when torquing the softer spacer nuts.

 

Sorry to go off topic. Didn't want to make another thread on wheel spacers but are spacers after 10mm+ bad for the wheel assembly? I've been hearing that it's bad for the wheel bearings in the long run.

 

I think a lot of factors come into play. The type & design of the car, the size of the spacers, the weight and size of the wheels and tires, roads, driving style, etc. I've used wheel spacers in the past but generally try to avoid it by getting the correct wheel offset. Most hub centric wheel spacers have a warning plastered on the box that says something like 'for off-road use only'. I think that's they're way of getting out of being liable for any damage that may occur as a result of using them.

 

All you're really doing w/ spacers is changing the wheel mount centerline (offset) so a moderate spacer shouldn't cause harm to the bearings if the offset remains reasonable. Offsets in the +20 to +45 range are used without problems on our Gs, and most of the real aggressive offsets (ones approaching neutral or even negative offset) are often very lightweight racing wheels to offset some of the weight transfer. As long as the spacers are safely installed and are a quality hubcentric setups there shouldn't be any long term issues. Any time you have more parts in the equation there's a greater chance for problems, so there is that

 

Sounds good. Thanks for the input guys.

OP: From what I've read. Make sure you use stock lugs on OEM wheels or tuner lugs on aftermarket wheels regardless of whether you are running a spacer or not.