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Wheel spacer Q



    Spacing out the rears will effectively make the rear stiffer (the tires 'give' has less of an
effect on body roll, since the give is further from the center of the car. Stiffer in rear promotes
oversteer, not understeer. Keep in mind this has minimal effect, since you are only adding 10mm. As
far as bearing wear, the rear bearings have considerable spacing between eachother. Slight change in
offset will have minimal change in bearing wear. Example: The rear bearings on the rieger last a
decent ammount of time between readjusting the nut, and its rear wheels are the equivalent of adding
another rear wheel outward from the stock one! (kinda like a dually scirocco, heh). All i need is a
v12 diesel and i'm all set.
Al

Allyn Malventano, ETC(SS), USN
87 Rieger GTO Scirocco 16v (daily driver, 170k, rocco #6)
86 Kamei Twin 16V Turbo Scirocco GTX (shell donor ready to rock, still planning, rocco #7)
87 Jetta 8v Wolfsburg 2dr (daily driver, 260k, 0 rattles, original clutch, driveshafts, wheels :)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mardak" <maardak@yahoo.ca>
To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 7:57 PM
Subject: Wheel spacer Q


> Anyone have any opinions on whether or not adding spacers to bring out
> the rear wheel a bit (10mm) is a good idea? (on a MK2)  Besides
> possibly stressing the wheel bearings more (?), will changing the rear
> track negatively affect handling?  My guess is that it would contribute
> to a bit more understeer, but I'm no rocket scientist!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark.
>
>
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