- We're back baby. (upbeat music)
It's been a hot minute since I've been in a video,
and man, does it feel good to be in the hot seat again.
Seriously, this one is gonna be a banger.
Back by popular demand is none other
than the (beeps) I never knew series, and this first one
is a spicy boy. (flames crackle)
Since what seems to be the beginning of time,
there's always been some sort of debate.
There's always a group of people who think they're right
and usually another group of people that think
that the first group is wrong.
I mean, that's how life works.
This is especially true when it comes
to the truck community.
I mean, let's be real here.
Dodge versus Chevy, Ram versus Ford.
The debates are pretty much endless.
But there's one especially hot topic that seems to come up
time after time after time. (clocks tick)
The questions about these little metal discs
flood inboxes day and night
and are truly a hot topic of conversation.
I'm Dustin with Custom Offsets.
You can find me at dusti.co on the gram.
And today, we're diving headfirst
into this hot button topic to let you guys know
all the (beeps) I never knew about wheel spacers.
Phew.
Before we jump into this spicy little meatball
of a video though, we got to let you know
if you're looking for wheels and tires, a lift kit,
or maybe even some performance parts for your truck,
you can find all of those at customoffsets.com.
Yes, we carry performance parts now.
It's pretty freaking awesome.
If you're having issues wondering what a certain
setup would look like on your truck, no sweat there either.
We've got a whole ass gallery full of like
80,000 vehicles that you can check out
and see real world examples of what size lift,
wheels, tires, et cetera, how much trimming,
all of that good stuff that guys are actually running.
It's pretty fricking awesome.
Okay.
Into the video.
So what exactly is a wheel spacer,
how does it work, and what makes some spacers better
or worse than others for your truck?
Kicking it off, a wheel spacer, or simply a spacer for short
is a machine or manufactured piece of metal,
usually aluminum or steel,
that goes on your truck's lug studs
and effectively pushes the wheel out and away from the hub.
The wheel then mounts directly to the spacer via studs
that are actually attached to the spacer,
which bolts onto the truck.
It's kind of a little thing.
- I'm not sure what to do with my hands.
- Be good to just hold them down
by your side, yeah. - Okay.
- The advantage of spacers is it gives you
a much wider stance without actually running a wider wheel.
For example, a 20 by 12 with a two inch spacer
is gonna effectively give you the same poke
as what a 14 wide would.
Additionally, spacers can be useful if you want
to swap bolt patterns in case you've got a good deal
on a set of wheels that may not be the bolt pattern
of your OEM truck.
So wider stance, less money than a 14 wide,
and I can run just about any wheel I want.
Sounds like a win all around to me, right?
Wrong. (image buzzes)
Don't get us wrong.
Spacers can be great, and in certain applications,
they work really well.
But if you've ever spent any amount of time on the internet,
then you've probably seen of, heard of,
or maybe even experienced yourself
a catastrophic spacer failure.
- [Man] All these lug nuts are on.
That was the only freaking wheel.
- Dad's probably hauling ash right now.
- You guys know (upbeat music)
the kind I'm talking about here.
You're flying down the road, 80 miles an hour,
mullet waving in the wind from your rolled down windows,
AC/DC on the radio,
and bam, (flames explode)
next thing you know, your wheel and tire is off
in the pickers, picking daisies in the swamps someplace,
just gone. (claps hands)
But why do some guys have great luck with spacers
while others lose a wheel every time
they get above 20 miles an hour?
The secret sauce to spacers is all in the build quality.
See spacers are available from a variety of suppliers,
and some are more expensive than others.
In the game of spacers however,
you pretty much get what you pay for.
Cheaper price spacers oftentimes are made
of a much lower quality material,
meaning that they're overall just much lower quality.
That's kind of how it works.
Additionally, oftentimes these lower cost spacers
do not have a hub centric ring,
meaning that your wheel is never gonna truly sit centered
on the spacer, causing it to go down the road
and put extreme amounts of stress and weight
onto the lug studs themselves
rather than the hub of the vehicle
like it's designed to do.
This stress and pressure can cause the studs
on the spacer to crack, break,
or in extreme cases cause your entire wheel and tire
to fly off going on the highway.
Before we jump into the next bit,
I want to take a second to talk to the 65% of you
that aren't actually subscribed to the channel yet.
We get it.
You're the rebels, the cool kids,
the ones who don't listen to the rules.
All right, listen, I joke, but in a serious note,
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please consider doing so. (mouse clicks)
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but it also keeps you up to speed
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Plus with every subscriber we gain,
Bigs has to run a lap around the building,
so let's make him run.
- Come on mother!
- Okay, so we talked about the good
and the bad with spacers,
but how do you know which ones are actually high quality?
Around here, we only carry Bora spacers
and their steel counterparts Stall.
These spaces are made to order right here
in the good old U.S.A. ("Star Spangled Banner")
and feature a hub centric ring
and high quality lug studs (upbeat music)
so that you can keep your wheels on your truck
where they belong and not rolling down the side of I-64
in the middle of Indiana.
What do you guys think about spacers?
Do you love them?
Have you used them before?
Do you have a friend who has a horror story
about losing a wheel due to cheap spacers?
Tag him down in the comments section below,
and as always, be sure to like the video,
subscribe to the channel if you haven't already,
so we can keep making (mouse clicks)
bang content just like this.
Peace.
(claps hands)
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