When you plan to purchase wheel spacers to make your Honda HR-V more aggressive and more stable, what should you notice? Besides the materials must be high-performance and tough enough, you must make sure the Honda HR-V wheel spacers are hub-centric. Simply saying, the wheel spacers are designed with a center bore which is the same as the axle spec and hub spec. The hub-centric spacers can promise a tight connection among axle plate, wheel spacers, and the hub. Next, I will explain in detail why hub-centric wheel spacers are so important, and how to increase the safety of the Honda HR-V hub-centric wheel spacers?
What’s Hub-centric Honda HR-V Wheel Spacers
As the picture shows, there’s a center bore on the surface of the wheel spacers, the diameter of which is the same as the CB spec of the Honda HR-V. For example, we receive a deal of installing wheel spacers on the 2016 Honda HR-V. The CB (Center Bore) is 64.1mm, and other specs are also the same. The PCD (Pitch Center Diameter) is 5×114.3, and the thread type is M12×1.5. The same specs are to avoid the vibration problem caused by the mismatch, and the step design on the center bore is also for this purpose.
The height of the step is decided by the thickness of the Honda HR-V wheel spacers. The thicker the spacer is, the higher the step is. Your wheels of the HR-V are tightly installed to the wheel spacers through the step and the studs on the spacers. The advantages of the hub-centric Honda HR-V wheel spacers are the perfect connection and the reasonable load transfer to the factory axle. You could reckon the axle installed with wheel spacer as an all-new hub, making the working principle remains the same.
How to Increase the Safety of the Honda HR-V Wheel Spacers?
Besides the hub-centric design we mention above, there are still other precautions to increase driving safety. If you follow these points, the probability of an accident will be so small that it can be ignored.
High-quality Materials. From the above description, you can know the Honda HR-V wheel spacers are fitted seamlessly between the axle and the hub, so if the spacers are produced roughly the contact mates are easily scratched during the high-speed rounding. Furthermore, the wheel is directly connected with the Honda HR-V wheel spacer. If the materials of the disk body and the studs are not tough enough, accidents will easily occur.
Accurate Measurement. The public specs of the Honda HR-V aren’t always the same. The slight difference will be caused by the generations, production batch, production place, and the using conditions. The more professional measurement on the size and the thickness is the direct factor that decides the normal working. The thickness is always measured by the distance between the fender line and the sidewall of the tire. However, for the giant full-size off-road wagons, the wheel spacers must be thick enough to stand the high strength during the driving and to hide the studs in to avoid the rubbing and vibration.
Correct Installation. The installation is also a vital step. After disassembling the wheels, the rust on the axle mate must need to be removed by spraying the rust removal, otherwise, the rust will make the spacers and the axle damage under continuous friction and it also make the actual torque of the lug nuts less than the specified one. The thread type of the 2016 Honda HR-V is M12×1.5, which means you need to apply nearly 120Nm torque on the lug nuts. Remember to use the torque wrench to tighten the lug nuts on the factory studs and the nuts on the spacer studs. Torque them until you hear the ‘Click’.
For more specific designs of Honda Civic hub-centric wheel spacers and safety tips, welcome to watch the video on the youtube channel.
