Wheel spacers installed
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Wheel spacers installed
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
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
Last edited by CDNX; 01-24-19 at 07:04 PM. Reason: Remove attachment
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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 ?
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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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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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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