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Old Aug 12, 2013 | 12:27 PM
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Hi, I have a 1999 f150 4x4 and want to use wheel 2 inch wheel adapters to give it a wider stance. i found rough country has them, but not for f150s, so does anyone use adapters or spacers on a 97-04 f150 and if so, what company carries them, i cant find them anywhere! thanks for the help
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Old Aug 12, 2013 | 12:32 PM
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I don't recommend them, we don't sport them at my shop because of liability. Buy yourself a bigger offset wheel instead, you'll regret it when you feel a hard wobble and realize one bolt is holding your wheel on.

Or when your wheel flies off hits another car possibly causing an accident and on top of it your rear end drops and you see sparks everywhere.
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Old Aug 12, 2013 | 01:35 PM
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check these guys out.

http://www.motorsport-tech.com/special/truck/ford_s


If you go to the gallery, click on trucks, as you scroll down you will see a real nice white jeep wrangler he is one of my friends, says they do real well. those wheels are AEV wheels, he has since tore those up and broke them, so he got his money back and bought some Robby Gordon race wheels..still rocking the same spacers.
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Old Aug 12, 2013 | 05:06 PM
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Those are dangerous man. One pothole or bad bump on the road will screw youe truck up
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Old Aug 12, 2013 | 05:50 PM
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Yeah wheel spaces are dangerous as hell do not recommend them. Buy some wider tires and wider offset rims that will be a lot safer then wheel spacers.

Last edited by Azure_; Aug 12, 2013 at 05:53 PM.
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Old Aug 12, 2013 | 06:30 PM
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Spacers and adapters are two different things. A set of quality adaptors installed correctly will be fine for highway use and no hard core offroading. It's those cheap aluminum disks that give them a bad name.
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Old Aug 13, 2013 | 07:57 PM
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Yea, I was refering to adapters, they are just often also called spacers. Which are pretty dangerous
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Old Aug 13, 2013 | 07:58 PM
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Originally Posted by 01f1502wd
check these guys out.

http://www.motorsport-tech.com/special/truck/ford_s

If you go to the gallery, click on trucks, as you scroll down you will see a real nice white jeep wrangler he is one of my friends, says they do real well. those wheels are AEV wheels, he has since tore those up and broke them, so he got his money back and bought some Robby Gordon race wheels..still rocking the same spacers.
Thanks so much! Just what I wanted!
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