new spacers and studs; now sterring wheel vibrates
 

2011 Touring Sport

I took some Stillen 20mm DRS Spacers and Replacement Studs (rear) and 15mm DRS (for the front)to a shop to be installed. Noticed that running at and over 65 mph I have a vibration in the steering wheel that was not noticable prior to getting the spacers and studs installed. Ran on them for ~50 miles and took it back to to the shop to torque again. And still over 65 mph I get a vibrating feel on the steering wheel. Any ideas? maybe take it to get a front alighment?

Sounds to me like either the studs or spacer weren't seated correctly. Also, try removing the wheels completely (not just retorquing the bolts) and reseating it on the spacer hub.

does the stillen spacers have a hubcentric lip? if not, it's not compatible with the stock oem wheels...

spacers suck. I had this problem with my ichibas. i have h&r's now. still a tiny bit of vibration, but I can live with it. Can't wait to get some rims.

The Stillen is actually the H&R so yes it has the lip built in on the 15mm and larger.

oh i see... hummmm... hope that lip didnt crack off. :icon14:

It will eventually ... but I doubt it has if just installed. Wouldn't hurt to put the wheels off and check everything over.

I never had any vibration with my 20mm H&Rs

I have a vibration problem after installing Ichiba 15 mm spacers on my stock Nismo rims. These were the replaceable extended stud version. I am looking into it right now, but will take probably them off. And yes these where hub-centric.

hub ring might be defective... I had a customer who had the same problem, he then replaced the hub ring and even though they looked exactly the same it fixed the problem...

Save your money. An alignment won't fix this issue.

:iagree:

yah too bad on the H&R's they're one piece... ichiba/kics yes. H&R / Eibachs no.

Thanks everyone; I took the car to get the alignment. Here's the results:

Front Intital Final Spec min, Spec max
Caster L 5.2 5.1 4.4 - 5.9
Caster R 5.1 5.0 4.4 - 5.9
Camber L -1.1 -1.1 -1.4 - .01
Camber R -1.3 -1.3 -1.4 - .01
Toe L 0.07 0.04 0.02 - 0.05
Toe R 0.14 0.03 0.02 - 0.05
Toe Total 0.21 0.07 0.05 - 0.11

Rear Intital Final Spec min, Spec max
Camber L -2.5 -2.0 -2.2 - -1.2
Camber R -2.3 -1.8 -2.2 - -1.2
Toe L 0.32 0.09 0.04 - 0.11
Toe R 0.15 0.09 0.04 - 0.11
Toe Total 0.47 0.18 0.09 - 0.21
Thust Angle 0.1 0.0

All Secondary Angles are perfect initial and final.

Does the car still vibrate after the alignment?