Toyota wheel spacers

Having had personal experience with these spacers breaking both the vehicle wheel studs, and the spacer wheel studs, I would not be running them on any vehicle.

well i dont know now, if they are built for racing than surely doing old man speeds i will be right, anyway i will pull them off as i dont need any insurance issues in the event a lunatic pushs us off the road .

Thanks Geoff
I have seen some pretty abrupt responses from hen pecked gurus, I will go back to asking my shed full of Mondays experts now footy season is on.
No stress I admire your outlook and thanks again.
I am heading back up to the cape in July so we will see what happens then, I have more than enough tools and gear to get me out of trouble , just can't seem to catch a barra, my biggest goal in life since my kids went to boarding school.
Anyway talk later

The insurance assessor is looking at our car tomorrow. We damaged it in the bush. I was advised by the bloke who gave us a quote to make sure it's legal. We could be knocked back for anything illegal at all and it does not have to be associated with the damage.

Phil

Itsd been a long established principal that an insurance company "cant" use a defect to refuse a claim if it did not demonstrably cause or contribute to the accident. Otherwise a chipped windscreen, leaking oil filter or tiny bit of corrosion could be used to refuse any claim.
HOWEVER, once youve got to fight the insurance company over it, youve probably lost anyway even if you come out on top.

They will almost always try it on anyhow especially with younger or less experienced people

It comes back to money hey!

Luckily all I did was take out the shelf behind the driver and put the rear seats back in. Fifteen minutes. Guess I am a little practised at doing it. When my wife and I go away we take out the seats and put them in if the grandkids are coming.

Legal or established principle; either way it was easier to change it back.

Lets say, for argument sake, that the standard track is 1.5M and you stick some 25mm spacers in. That's a tiny 3.3% increase in track. Wow. I bet that will help a lot of cars not roll over. And what about the additional cornering stability; such an enormous gain - NOT.

I wonder if one would call me a "hen picked guru" because I don't approve of spacers just to get an inch or so of wider track. I don't agree with spacers unless you can get them approved by an engineer. Bugger the law. What's more important is car reliability in places like the Canning or the remote Vic High country

Phil