Hey guys i bought a set of hubcentric spacers from jjcraceandrally.com

I paid about £30 for them and thought cracking! found a right bargain!!!

Obviously you pay for what you get in this case!

Got the other half to fit them, all went swimmingly as we were putting the steelies back on while i send my alloys off to be refurbed.

Anyhoooo he was screwing them on, and they were taking ages to screw in. Ended up getting closer to the wheel to find the so called *hubcentric* part of the spacers had clean snapped off!

Just wanted to warn people to look out for these spacers!

Other than that i won't fault the company on service as they were extremely easy to deal with, perfect service and extremely fast delivery. Just be weary of buying spacers from them

Pics below:

id still use them

id still use them

useable yes, but its nice of someone to express concern with things like this :)

yep. shame they snapped, just makes fitting a bit harder. shouldnt affect anything once the wheels are on though lol

dont mean to piss on your bonfire, but i've had exactly the same thing happen with a set of spacers, albeit german made. Reason it happens is that they are made maybe a little too accurately, and when you try and wedge them onto your 10-20 year old hubs that have been exposed to pleanty of grime and grease, the fit is simply too tight. bet they were on the rear hubs?

to avoid in the future, make sure you clean the spigot on the hub before fitting the spacers. I've also had alloys which were too tight to fit on the hub for the same reason. Often happens when people smear the hub with copper grease to stop the wheel sticking to the hub. It actually makes them stick worse in my experience.

Edited 5 March, 201214 yr by g40jon

looks like monkey-metal to me.

looks like monkey-metal to me.

i was gonna say that lol

looks like regular aluminium thats been machined to me

Edited 5 March, 201214 yr by g40jon

dont mean to piss on your bonfire, but i've had exactly the same thing happen with a set of spacers, albeit german made. Reason it happens is that they are made maybe a little too accurately, and when you try and wedge them onto your 10-20 year old hubs that have been exposed to pleanty of grime and grease, the fit is simply too tight. bet they were on the rear hubs?

to avoid in the future, make sure you clean the spigot on the hub before fitting the spacers. I've also had alloys which were too tight to fit on the hub for the same reason. Often happens when people smear the hub with copper grease to stop the wheel sticking to the hub. It actually makes them stick worse in my experience.

This.

Chances are the manufacturers just type '57.1mm' into a CNC lathe and smash a load of them out. But like Jon says it's unlikely your hubs are still the same size they were all them years ago.

Also does look like gash material, probably hence the price.

in fairness your hardly gonna get a/c grade aluminium on £30 wheel spacers. i've seen smashed alloy wheels with a similar metal structure. I'm sure the metal would have been of suitable quality for its use as a spacer. You want to see bad spacers, look up cosmic/grayston spacers, now they are bad

dont mean to piss on your bonfire, but i've had exactly the same thing happen with a set of spacers, albeit german made. Reason it happens is that they are made maybe a little too accurately, and when you try and wedge them onto your 10-20 year old hubs that have been exposed to pleanty of grime and grease, the fit is simply too tight. bet they were on the rear hubs?

to avoid in the future, make sure you clean the spigot on the hub before fitting the spacers. I've also had alloys which were too tight to fit on the hub for the same reason. Often happens when people smear the hub with copper grease to stop the wheel sticking to the hub. It actually makes them stick worse in my experience.

Well considering my car is just over 4 years they can't be that bad. Well tbh they're not at all they're fairly clean. Also we used brillo pads to clean off any dirt and thoroughly washed them before fitting so can't be either of those problems...

They were the rear hubs though yeh. Only had them for the back. Either way i'll be getting them sent back for a full refund and going for some expensive 20mm Hubcentris spacers with extended bolts. Will be done properly though next time.

If the spacers broke that easily i'd rather buy the bolts elsewhere.

Anyhoo just warning you all to be careful when buying such spacers :)

Cheers

I'll be steering clear of them

I wudnt say avoid them as a company. Just avoid them for these spacers.

The service was great and they were really helpful in general

Ah I have just remembered what caused mine to do a similar thing. Mine were fine used on the front, but when fitted to the rears the hub spigot is deeper on the chamfered bit, this presses on the inside of the spacer and pops the hub-centric part off.

Yeah, JJC are a good place.

tbh, people saying they are made of 'monkey metal'.. why would you make them of anything else? All they are is spacers, they don't take any weight, just sit in-between something. No need to be made of anything else...

Bit of a shitter though.

Have you told JJC whats happened?

Yeah, JJC are a good place.

tbh, people saying they are made of 'monkey metal'.. why would you make them of anything else?

so they dont snap like these ones?

Ah I have just remembered what caused mine to do a similar thing. Mine were fine used on the front, but when fitted to the rears the hub spigot is deeper on the chamfered bit, this presses on the inside of the spacer and pops the hub-centric part off.

This sounds like the most likely cause tbh. Only way to know for sure is getting the measuring tape (or verniers) out when you fit the new ones.

If it was me I would like to know the reason it happened before ruining a new expensive set!!!

Ah I have just remembered what caused mine to do a similar thing. Mine were fine used on the front, but when fitted to the rears the hub spigot is deeper on the chamfered bit, this presses on the inside of the spacer and pops the hub-centric part off.

This sounds like the most likely cause tbh. Only way to know for sure is getting the measuring tape (or verniers) out when you fit the new ones.

If it was me I would like to know the reason it happened before ruining a new expensive set!!!

I won't be buying cheapy ones again. Only the best from now on haha. Either way the company have been great accepted liability and are giving me a full refund when they've received them back :)

Yeah, JJC are a good place.

tbh, people saying they are made of 'monkey metal'.. why would you make them of anything else?

so they dont snap like these ones?

this is b-shaw why put 2+2 together and get 4 when you can much more easily get 2+2 = fail

Missing my point completely, dicks!

Edited 7 March, 201214 yr by B-shaw

i was only just looking at this on fleabay last night, thanks for the headsup

Edited 7 March, 201214 yr by brightsideteeem

You get longer wheel bolts aswell yeh? or do you just not know what you're doing..

I've dealt with JJC before...ordered 2 Toyo Proxys on a monday afternoon and had them on my doorstep tuesday morning.

there delivery times cant be sniffed at.

Yeah, JJC are a good place.

tbh, people saying they are made of 'monkey metal'.. why would you make them of anything else?

so they dont snap like these ones?

this is b-shaw why put 2+2 together and get 4 when you can much more easily get 2+2 = fail

Missing my point completely, dicks!

I know what your saying Toby and I agree, I doubt the expensive ones are made of much different material. The only reason that one has snapped is because force has been applied to it in a way that it was never designed to be. The hubcentric bit that has snapped off is designed to do the same job as a spigot ring, which tend to be made of plastic.