The benefits of wheel spacers, and their drawbacks, are generally controlled by what kind of spacers you get and what size you go with. For starters, you'll need to get a spacer that properly fits ...

We use wheel spacers on my wife's Toyota 4Runner. We're still running the stock wheels, but the all-terrain tires are slightly oversized. She doesn't baby this car (that's why it's so dirty).

There’s a Dodge Challenger with wheel spacers on oversized tires, hard pass. Then we saw the Trail Boss Corvette and our deepest, darkest off-roading desires were finally fulfilled.

Most wheel spacers bolt onto a truck's axles or hubs, and include studs that wheels are mounted on. Adapters, on the other hand, also have studs, but they're arranged in a different bolt pattern.

A two-inch wheel spacer would be considered pretty big. What our flannel-hatted host here has done is make a two-foot "wheel spacer" so that his Silverado could hold, sort of, what appears to be a ...

On wheel-spacer-equipped vehicles, the effective lengthening or staggering outward of the wheel also generates elevated mechanical forces like the lengthened tire iron.