So I have had my alloys and 10mm spacers fitted for over 4 years now with no problems until yesterday.
I started getting a creaking, squealing noise, scrapping noise. Took it to the garage they said the bolts were too long and scraping on the adjuster springs and internals of the rear hubs/drums.
Anyway, I've compared my factory fiat bolts before the alloys: i think the tread length is about 19mm, the wobbly bolts i got with the alloys and spacers are about 30mm long.
The garage said i would only need bolts to be a couple of mm's shorter so…I have found some bolts which are 26mm/27mm long (getting this confirmed with the guy selling them) and some that are 28mm long. I'm edging towards the 26mm/27mm ones as 4 or 3mm difference surely has a better chance of sorting the problem.
Wanted to check on here if anyone have experience this and/or resolved this
thanks
Matt
I started getting a creaking, squealing noise, scrapping noise. Took it to the garage they said the bolts were too long and scraping on the adjuster springs and internals of the rear hubs/drums.
Anyway, I've compared my factory fiat bolts before the alloys: i think the tread length is about 19mm, the wobbly bolts i got with the alloys and spacers are about 30mm long.
The garage said i would only need bolts to be a couple of mm's shorter so…I have found some bolts which are 26mm/27mm long (getting this confirmed with the guy selling them) and some that are 28mm long. I'm edging towards the 26mm/27mm ones as 4 or 3mm difference surely has a better chance of sorting the problem.
Wanted to check on here if anyone have experience this and/or resolved this
thanks
Matt