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Originally Posted by jetbill
You may have a hard time finding a 5mm hub centric spacer, I'm not sure I've seen anything smaller than 10mm as it's hard to machine a design smaller but also incorporate the centering lip (hopefully you have found one).
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Agreed, you need about 10mm minimum in order to clear the hub's centering lip.
So spacers under 10mm aren't hub-centric, but rather rely on what's left of the hub's centering lip... (which is why you usually don't see spacers in the 6-9mm range - not wide enough for a hub-centric lip, but too wide to still make effective use of the small remaining amount of the hub's centering lip that clears the spacer).
I currently have 5mm spacers in front and 3mm spacers in back with my Apex wheels... but I'm considering bumping up to 10 or 12mm. In general, do you think 10mm hub-centric spacers are a better way to go than 5mm spacers that still make use of the hub lip? Or does it not really matter...?