Anyone run spacers on stock (non s) g37 x sedan? Stock rims no drop.
Any benefit from this...does the stance look better. Is the handling worse/better? Does it impact safety with increase stress on the spidles and is tire wear or alignment thrown off? Thanks for the input.

 

A friend of mine at work has a 2012 Coupe with the Sport 19s, no drop, 15mm spacers on the front and 20mm spacers on the rear.

Looks really good and the only adverse side effect he's reported is that a little more road debris is splashed on the quarter-panels and fenders of the car.

In my opinion, with his setup, it seems to hide (or creates the illusion of hiding) some of the stock wheel gap on the coupe.

I have wondered how this would look on the sedan with the stock 18 inch sport rims, but am too chicken to purchase spacers only to find out it looks worse. The sedan has more wheel gap than the coupe, so I'm not sure its an apples to apples comparison.

The sedan desperately needs a 'mild drop, almost no tradeoff' solution such as the one many of us used on the 1st generation (G/Z drop). Aftermarket solutions are available, but it seems that there are alot of tradeoffs. The stock suspension/handling on the sport model sedan is dead on for me and many others, I just wish there was something available to slightly improve the stance.

 

The only real downside is you may introduce vibration, the hubcentric designs typically eliminate vibration but it's still a possibility. And adding another 5 bolts to hold your wheels on is another thing to think about (on the bolt-on type spacers).

 

I ran 5mm on my sedan all around on stock 17's with impul springs and the vibration was terrible!! Had to take them off. Will try 15mm bolt on all around and see how the vibration goes.

 

I think any time you run spacers you should assume SOME level of compromise in safety versus a stock configuration. Depending on the type of spacer used and the extent of the spacing, the degree to which this compromise occurs can be anywhere from negligible to severe, so without some specific details of spacer measurement, spacer type, and your intended/expected usage of the car afterwards, any answers as to the safety would be more like guesses.

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I've got 15mm on the rear wheels of my xS and love the look. Very subtle but I know it and that's all that matters to me.

 

I run 20mm all around on my 09 sedan sport sedan 18's. But I'm dropped on swifts also but looks really good the spacers really help the "flush" look and for what's said above about the hyw vibration if they don't fit right .

 

I ran 15s and 20s to help me clear the BBK after I got it installed. No issues and I was running spacers most people don't seem to like. But, no vibration or other problems. At the time I was running staggered wheels not squared. If you're running squared wheels I would run the same size spacers.

 

I love these. Have used them many times of different vehicle applications.

H&R DRM TRAK+ Wheel Spacers

 

Dropped, spacers are a fine addition to OEM wheels. Without spacers, OEM wheels look silly dropped and tucked. Similarly, without the drop, OEM wheels will look silly poked with spacers.

It's a fine line. And a subjective one, too, but still...

 

Thanks all for the input. After hearing all the contents just going stock unless/until i drop. The change in look with stock isn't worth the risk in deliverability at this point for me.

 

Just make sure the spacers you are getting are Infiniti hub centric. This along will decrease vibrations.