A6 C7 Wheel Spacers and Lowering Advice

[ZerosGiven]

Hi there,

I’m looking to slightly space out the wheels (around 10mm) and lower the suspension by approximately 20mm. Has anyone done this before? If so, do you have any advice on the best products or brands for these upgrades?

I don’t want to go overboard, just a subtle adjustment to improve the look and feel. My budget isn’t huge, so any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers!

[Stevey Y]

7 hours ago, ZerosGiven said:

Hi there,

I’m looking to slightly space out the wheels (around 10mm) and lower the suspension by approximately 20mm. Has anyone done this before? If so, do you have any advice on the best products or brands for these upgrades?

I don’t want to go overboard, just a subtle adjustment to improve the look and feel. My budget isn’t huge, so any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers!

Hi my advice would be to leave well alone, the type of modifications you suggest may well throw the suspension geometry way out therefore taking it beyond any adjustment that currently exists naturally on the original set up, it is doable but will involve some serious spending as you will have altered the offset of the wheels massively with your current wheels being designed for that specific car.

Steve.

[Anton8]

Hi

I agree with Steve. Wheel spacers put undue load on the axle bearings, and you would probably have to declare them to your insurance company as well.

[Magnet]

It’s a shame the OP is yet to read any of the responses. 

[DAN@ADRIAN FLUX]

Hi.

If you have any issues with insurance for wheel spacers then please feel free to drop me a line.

Regards,

Dan.

[ZerosGiven]

On 3/26/2025 at 5:46 PM, Stevey Y said:

Hi my advice would be to leave well alone, the type of modifications you suggest may well throw the suspension geometry way out therefore taking it beyond any adjustment that currently exists naturally on the original set up, it is doable but will involve some serious spending as you will have altered the offset of the wheels massively with your current wheels being designed for that specific car.

Steve.

Was thinking just 10mm on the back and 5mm on the fronts. You think this will much of an issue? I would plan to have it all aligned after, so should sort any issues?

[ZerosGiven]

On 3/28/2025 at 8:04 AM, Anton8 said:

Hi

I agree with Steve. Wheel spacers put undue load on the axle bearings, and you would probably have to declare them to your insurance company as well.

Yeah, I would do this, would not want to drive around without cover.

[ZerosGiven]

On 3/29/2025 at 7:46 PM, DAN@ADRIAN FLUX said:

Hi.

If you have any issues with insurance for wheel spacers then please feel free to drop me a line.

Regards,

Dan.

Appreciate the offer, thanks. Do you think there will be much of an issue? Have you spaced a car previously?

[Stevey Y]

4 hours ago, ZerosGiven said:

Appreciate the offer, thanks. Do you think there will be much of an issue? Have you spaced a car previously?

Hi Duncan did you actually read the posted reply properly, the guy was offering you alternative means of insurance should your company decline to insure you with the spacers fitted, why dont you ask your existing insurance company if they will accept this modification before going ahead and running in to a wall when they wont do it, most insurance companies view these types of modification very suspiciously as they may well unsettle the cars steering and suspension geometry, each insurance company has its own team of mechanical engineers who assess the possible impact of such changes, you seem to be adamant that you will do this anyway but you have not had the answer you wanted, just sound basic advice which you dont seem to want or pay any attention to, I wish you luck.

Steve.

[Hammie1982]

realistically there are 2 options for doing what your asking about.

1 is spacers and 2 is lower offset wheels.  

Spacers have been given a bad rep for years, but yet noone will give lower offset wheels a bad rep for doing the exact same thing only in a slightly different way.

Infact it would be my opinion that 10mm spacers are going to put less additional load on the drive train system than changing a wheel from a 255 to a 275 or even 285 profile on a lower offset wheel but i would be more than happy to recieve any explination as to why i might be wrong on this from someone that knows more and has tangiable reading material to show otherwise.

 

Yes i know some people have taken these things to the extreme and put 70mm+ spacers on a car with just elongated bolts and not used the safer bolt on hubcentric options that are also available  

 

(Just to emphasise that i am not suggesting either option as being better than the other, I am merely pointing out the 2 options that i would be aware of that are not a huge cost in an attempt to answer the original query within the confines of the terms they set out in their query)

[Anton8]

I would just like to ask. Why? The A6 Avant has quite a low profile and wide stance already. I am probably "old Skool" but I think some of these modifications ask the chassis and axles to do things that they were not originally designed for, and could cause premature failures of some components.