4 to 5 lug wheel adaptors, good or bad?

[mr.utility at highstream.net (David Utley)]

While I have no direct experience with these, I will offer two bits of 
advice...

  1st, Overland sells hubs to replace yours with the later VW 5 X 100 bolt 
pattern.  This may or may not interest you.  If it does, know that I believe 
that the front bearings are sacrificed in the removal process.  The rears 
could be R&Red, but they are so cheap anyways...

  2nd,I sensed that you might be worried about safety issues if you used 
spacers.  Everything that H&R sells is tested under TUV (with an obligatory 
umlaut over the U) standards, which are very stingent.  Rest assured that they 
will not fail if they are properly installed, and the correct ones were chosen 
for the job.  It should be known that the further you move the wheel away from 
the bearing, your leverage against the bearing is increased.  IE-- you might 
increase wear on the bearings using these...

Hopefully others will offer more specific advice...

HTH

David Utley

Quoting calimus <calimus@techography.net>:

> I'm in a bit of a delema.  For me, I lust for a set of BBS RX's for my
> rocco, well an opportunity has presented itself with a small snag, they are
> 5 lug rims.  Now I know the Potters carry the H&R 4 to 5 lug adaptors, but
> are the a wise choise?  Naturally I'm concerned about them cracking or
> breaking in any way and I'm wondering if anyone on the list has played with
> these.
> 
> My only other option would be to bump up to the corrado front and rear discs
> and I don't think I can squeeze those and the rims into my current budget.
> That is unless someone just happens to have a set for dirt cheap they would
> like to get rid of.  Anyone?  Anyone? Bueller?
> 
> So, what say the great list on this subject?
> 
> William Snyder
> 
> 88' Scirocco 16v
> 89' Cabriolet 8v
> 71' Karmann Ghia
> 
> 
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