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Wheel spacers installed

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Old 01-24-19, 06:45 PM
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Hello fellow Lexus NX owners. A new member here and my first post. Thought I’d be helpful right off the bat by adding pics of my wife’s 2015 Atomic Silver FSport with wheel spacers on factory 18x7.5 wheels.

Picked up a pair of hubcentric 15mm spacers for the fronts and a pair of 25mm for the rears. Bought from a reputable seller on eBay for about $30USD each pair.
I had the oem Michelin Primacy 225 60 18 tires removed shortly after taking ownership and installed beefier 245 55 18 Toyo All weather Celsius tires. I know it’s not the best for fuel economy but I think cars from the factory are usually installed with too skinny of a tire and do nothing for the overal look.
To cut to the chase here are a few pics. Hopefully will help out other owners who are thinking about wider tires and how it would look spaced out to fill the wheel well on the NX a bit better. Top of the tires now sit perfectly flush with the fender flares.



Oh btw, hopefully I posted this in the proper area in the forum. I apologize ahead of time if I didn’t.




Front of the spacer....comes with set of conical open ended nuts to attach to the factory lugs

Back of the spacer

Rear 25mm spacer attached

Wheel installed over spacer

Rear with spacer

Side profile before the spacer install

Side profile after

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Old 01-25-19, 11:27 AM
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Hi and Welcome,

The stance of the Nx from the rear does still bother me, so I was thinking of doing the same myself. I once put a set of spacers on my previous A5 and it did look sweet.
I just wasn’t sure how it would look on the Nx and didn’t want to mess around with the mpg, but now I have seen yours I may have a second look.
Do you have any photos from the rear ?

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This only pic of the rear I have at the moment. Will post better pics when they become available.
Thanks
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Old 01-26-19, 01:52 PM
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Looking forward to your pictures!

Hope it looks FROM this



TO this

Old 01-26-19, 11:03 PM
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Originally Posted by ching2
Looking forward to your pictures!

Hope it looks FROM this



TO this

i have a similar set up on mine with 15mm fronts and 25mm rears. I added the 19” f-sport wheels, it has a different offset which pushed the wheels in a bit even though I went from a 225 tire to 235.....it’s still not an X5 M

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Still looks better. Thanks for the picture
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My NX has 20x10+40mm Rotiform BLQ R112 on the back with 20x8.5+in the front. The back wheels have 275/40R20 Pirelli P-Zeros. Here is what it looks like from behind.
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Looks really nice. Thank you. Considering this mod next time.
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Hey folks - new member and new owner of a 2016 F-Sport. One of the first things I did was add spacers because I can't stand the anemic sucked-in look. Went with 25mm front & back.



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Nice pics! Considering doing this to my NX but I am worried about the fuel economy dropping ? Any significant change in yours?
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I get a consistent 19-20mpg average. I do a lot of city though. Also, I'm running the largest and widest wheel/tire set up of the group.
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