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After lowering the car with the Ohlins 車高調, the thin 18x8 inch front wheel became very obvious as the wheel was fully tucked under the front fender, leaving a large gap between the fender and the wheel. What i really wanted to do was buy new wheels, but since i'm waiting to install the RE雨宮 GT AD II widebody kit before buying new wheels, i had to make do with the wheels that came with the car. So, i decided to buy some 20mm wheel spacers to push out the wheels, making them fit 9.0 inch wide wheels. The wheel spacers came unpainted, so i used some leftover paint i had from painting my rotor hubs to paint the wheel spacers to match the hubs.



Installing wheels spacers is fairly straight forward and only took a few minutes to complete. Here's a picture of the wheel spacer installed:


The wheel spacer isn't quite as wide as the rotor hub, but considering it was a temporary thing, i didn't mind too much. To give you a better idea of the huge difference in stance these wheel spacers made, here are some before and after pictures:

Before


After


It's nice to see the front wheel stick out a little bit more and show more of it's tire making it look beefier and more aggressive