Attention: Be careful when using wheel spacers

As I feel like this is a rather important issue, I felt the need to make another thread specifically devoted to this this.

Upon hearing a noise the other day, I inspected my lug nuts and found one of my studs on my 20mm Ichiba V2 spacers had completely sheared off on the front driver side. Today I took off the spacers to investigate, and as I was taking off the passenger side front wheel, another one of the studs snapped off while loosening it.

Whether this occurred through me over torquing the lug nuts or whether it was 100% related to the actual product (strongly leaning towards the first), it is still scary to have this happen. Since I'm currently on my stock steelies with hubcaps for winter I did not visually see anything wrong until further inspection.

Not sure what I would have done had more than one snapped off while driving down the road.


Be careful, folks.

kinda weird they both snapped in roughly the same area on the stud. You gonna replace the studs then?

SiRWannabe wrote:

kinda weird they both snapped in roughly the same area on the stud. You gonna replace the studs then?

I don't think I can replace the studs on these spacers. They're pressed in there pretty good

lol like I said, go buy new studs that match those, take it to a reputable shop, they press out the old studs and press in the new

thats why you should buy a wheel made with the desired offset lol

never seen this happen with ichiba... you run spacers on your winter wheels?!

Yeah I just never took them off