Thanks for the info!
Anyways I did a bit of looking into this today. Here's a post from the ptcruiser forum (i did a search on google and it's what i found okay!? not a pt cruiser fan myself! just had some good info there) and here's what i found:
http://www.ptcruiserlinks.com/forum/top ... 3&ARCHIVE=
In short some guy had installed 25mm spacers on his pt and gave a positive review.
Also another guy from the same forum wrote:
..IRPT, no offense but you might want to get a new education on wheel spacers. The H & R's aren't the old "MR Gasket" style we used to use in the 70's that just slipped over the studs. The new hub centric's are made on a CNC machine and creates an exact duplicate of the wheel spindle with it's own new wheel studs. It bolts on the original spindle and studs and is perfectly centered on the hub snout with it's machined center, it's held on with new supplied lug nuts that are recessed into the spacer, new wheel studs are made on the spacer that the existing wheel is mounted on. I would bet these are stronger than the original wheel spindles. As far as CV joints, I can't see how they're effected being on the inner side of the front wheel spindle bearing. As far as offset load increase on the bearings it's no more than changing to a wheel of different offset... your just keeping the original wheel and adding offset. I have H & R spacers on many vehicles and never have heard of a failure or increased mechanical failure of the vehicle. We have a 4-wheel drive Ford F-350 wrecker with these spacers that are 2 1/2" offset. We use it for over the road transport and pull a 24' enclosed car hauler. It's got over 100,000 miles on the spacers, that's test enough for me!
link to that post here:
http://www.ptcruiserlinks.com/forum/top ... el+spacers
I've heard a lot of negative things regarding wheel spacers and stuff. Not much support for the negativity though. I'm looking around for horror stories regarding them. Such as wrecked suspensions or something like that. I mean that's how much negativity surrounds them I think.
If you think about it, they're essentially the same as getting a wheel with a greater offset. If you bought a rim which you wanted to fill your wheel well that was the same width as stock, you'd have to get it with an offset which is stock + the spacer width. Lots of people do this with aftermarket wheels so what is the difference between doing this and getting a spacer?
Anyways i'll still research into this and post my findings. If I don't find anything really negative about it I think it's a great way to fill out your wheel wells without having to buy wider rims.
Any comments?
Anyways can't wait to see the pics phader!
