Quick question! Is that with stock suspension?

@@WRXGarage Yes sorry forgot to mention that. Maybe with the 245's it's clearing by a mm...it can't be much. The tire also pushed the thin plastic inner fender liner up some. You can see where the tread of the tire has been touching it.

Gotcha! That makes sense. My fenders are rolled a lot so I haven't had any issues with the spacers!

@@WRXGarage I didn't have time to watch every minute of the video. Might be a good thing to make clear if it wasn't already. Cheers.

Yessir! I mentioned this in the video!

Sounds like your rear camber or toe was out of alignment and the spacers ended up making it worse. If you're going to add the spacers back on, get a fresh alignment right after!

If I ran my summer wheels which are wider and higher offset with the spacers, yes it's probable I'd have issues with the wheel bearings. With this setup, the offset is still less than the Enkei's, which haven't given me any issues even after 60k miles. So long story short, the oem wheels with spacers shouldn't cause any issues at all.

STI 4pot/2pot brembo swap!

Braking is not affected. Steering doesn't seem to be affected very much, maybe a bit heavier. I also have a set of aftermarket wheels that have a higher offset and a much wider tread tire (265 vs 245 oem). If anything, the overall performance and handling is improved by increased offset.

Oops.. just updated the video. Link to them now in the description!

Some used 20 and 25 is common but still it is your car and depend to your taste..

Links in the description!

The links I have in the description are for pairs, so for all 4 you'd need to order x2.

Just got a set of 4 off Amazon used for 37$ free shipping

What brand?

No, very unlikely! The 20 and 25mm spacers are built with the oem studs and wheels in mind.

@@WRXGarage @kamala989 I got some 20mm titan wheel spacers (similar to the factionfab ones, super high quality, hub centric, and extended studs) for my 2018 Impreza sport with the OEM 18’s, and the back wheel face WAS resting on the OEM studs and not the spacer face. There’s probably a 1-2mm gap between the wheel and spacer, so a 25mm spacer will guarantee you’re good, but also the rear wheel face of your BBS’s might accommodate the OEM studs protruding past the spacer face. My wheels have reliefs in them, but they’re wider, like a 5x120 stud spacing, so they don’t line up with my OEM studs unfortunately. If they did, I think I’d actually be okay; the reliefs are deeper than the amount of OEM stud that protrudes past the spacer face.

Anti seize works too, but yeah it's messy. The white lithium grease has held up really well.

@@WRXGarage awesome, I’m putting the summers on now and using the white lithium grease this time around 🤙

If you hadn't done an alignment in a while, it's absolutely possible that it's changed over time. But changing your wheels shouldn't effect alignment.

@@WRXGarage I appreciate it. The only reason I went to the dealership was to re-calibrate the tire pressure sensors

The new wheel studs that you might the wheels to look like the same length as oem so I have to assume that the oem lug nuts would work fine! If you want to go new lug nuts, here are the ones I use, they've held up really well for a couple years now. amzn.to/3xSOUm3

The oem wheels in this video are 18x8.5+55, wrapped in 245/40 Blizzaks

@@WRXGarage 1.4 dropped all around? Thank you

Probably 2-2.25" drop

Took them off after one entire winter and they're still in perfect condition! None of the nuts came loose, threads all in great condition.

@@WRXGarage why did you take them off then? changed wheels or something? sorry just curious lol

I run my oem wheels with winter tires for each winter and have an aftermarket set of wheels and tires for the spring and summer! The spacers were to help bump the oem wheels out towards the fender and make them look better

Yep spacers are total ricer stuff

I use the factory wheels only for the winter.. I'm not going to buy a second set of aftermarket wheels that are just going to get trashed by the snow and salt 4 months a year..

@@WRXGarage ignore this people, they are just jealous

Based on the laws of physics.. this setup wouldn't effect the wheel bearings any more than the aftermarket wheels would. Wheel bearings are mostly effected by excess weight that's pushed farther out from the wheel hub. Big dish wheels with crazy offset. If you watch the video, I do explain that these wheels are still less offset than the aftermarket wheels I have. 60k miles on the higher offset wheels and haven't had a single issue with my wheel bearings.

Really should do your research before saying this kind of stuff.. This is some of the misinformation that has been going around.

@@Antykain race cars don't use wheel spacers for a reason: because they don't work as well as just fitting the right wheels. No research needed

@@ianholmquist8492 Again, do your research. Wheel spacers are used, and allowed for racing. Even used in **cough** NASCAR legally. Just saying nicely, do your research. They are more widely used than you realize. :) Even in Drag racing.. that kind of stress is still safe for a proper wheel spacer. To add, there are plenty of wheel spacers that are not safe.. Non-hub centric, for example, spacers not using a high grade bolt/lug, etc. Those are definitely not recommended for use safely.

@@Antykain here is the most popular and most credible automotive engineering source on YT speaking on the subject. Seems to me the cons definitely outweigh the pros as EE explains it. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nr2Zncmg1Mu3qYk.html

These were wheels dedicated just for a couple of months each year (winter). There's nothing wrong with running wheel spacers just for the purpose of the looks. Remember.. this is a track car with dedicated wheels and tires for dailying and the track, both without spacers.

@@WRXGarage nothing wrong with adding 2 lbs+ per wheel just for appearance? OK.

@@WRXGarage yeah, I bought a set of Noble spacers for the same reason but hated the idea of the extra weight as much as the heavier feel. Now they're on Craig's List, along with the 29lb each aftermarket wheels (Voxx) I bought for winter before I knew better. I run snows more months of the year than not, due to my location, and the real possibility of accumulating snow from September to June. I'm a 9-1-1 dispatcher, and just talked a driver in white-out conditions into a parking lot at the bottom of Loveland Pass. I had to exercise extreme restraint in not telling the caller a WRX could have powered through, spacers or not.