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[whistler]

I have Rosepetals as well and had to use the very thin supplied spacers on the front for calliper clearance. Those spacers have a recess around the stud holes and the tube nuts (the longer supplied ones) locate into the recess when you tighten the nuts up. No need for longer studs.

My Rosepetals are the standard 4.75 x 10.

6 x 10 are going to stick out well past the arches.

Edited by whistler, 19 March 2023 - 10:15 AM.

[maccers]

I'm using a set of 10" Rose Petals from Mini Spares, they came with hub centric spacers and two sets of wheel nuts for use with different length studs. I need to use the spacers on the front to clear the caliper, and also on the rear I am using MiniFin alloy drum, I think its got the built in spacer, but seeing as they supplied 4 spacers, I used them on the rears as well, which does give much better clearance from the shock absorber.

Sorry just to correct you they can’t be hub-centric spacers as the drive flange does not have a lip to mount them to. The edge that they would have mounted on is angled so does not locate them. The Metro drive flanges were hub-centric with the four lugs on them which had to be removed to get most of the Mini wheels to fit.

Yep sorry I meant they centre on the hubs as they have holes machined into them that match the pcd stud spacing, vs generic ones with slots.

[CallumAustin11]

Sorry there wasn't much context to the photo. 

The car has those arches and had drums on the front. It had 9.5mm spacers on the front and back. 

I've now changed the drums to 7.5'' discs. However, the wheels aren't sitting right in the arches. I believe the wheels are 6 x 10'' cosmics. 

So should I look at changing the wheels rather than the studs to fill the arches? 

If I do change the wheels, any recommendations, I was looking at Mamba wheels paired with Yoko A008s  

[Cooperman]

Spacers on the front are a really bad idea.
Just get the correct wheels.