Fitting S5 20" rims - which spacers?

[maars]

For all those members with 20" OEM S5 20x9 ET29 rims, what size/spec spacers/bolts/spigot rings did you use?

5mm? 8mm?
Hubcentric I assume?

H&R 1655572 perhaps?

Thanks in advance

[m5killer]

8mm hubcentric will be fine not sure on the spigots

[hteebee]

For all those members with 20" OEM S5 20x9 ET29 rims, what size/spec spacers/bolts/spigot rings did you use?

5mm? 8mm?
Hubcentric I assume?

H&R 1655572 perhaps?

Thanks in advance

My wheels are Audi OEM 20” x 9J ‘5-double-spoke’ design ET29 alloy wheels with 265/30 R20 tyres.

The following describes how I went about it as a noob when I first bought spacers for those wheels.

I quickly realised that H&R or Eibach hubcentric spacers were the brands to go for but I couldn't see any thickness recommends for my particular wheels. This meant I had to discover and use the technique of measuring the tyre to wheel arch gap.

I determined that I would need 5mm spacers for each front wheel and 15mm for each rear wheel.

That's when I found H&R's designations of DR and DRA. The former below 20mm use longer replacement bolts (through the spacer into the hub) instead of the OEM bolts, whereas the DRA spacers are thick enough to have their own bolts to secure the spacer to the hub, with the OEM bolts being retained to secure the wheel to the spacer. So DR for me.

I then noticed that for the 5mm spacers I needed to buy DR10s and DR30s for the 15mm, because the product code is based on total track thickness, not per wheel.

It was then pretty straightforward to go to the H&R US website trakplus.com and use the vehicle selector to get the right product codes.

This also confirmed that my wheels' bolt pattern/PCD was 5/112 with a centre bore of 66.6mm and M14x1.5 bolts.

Because I had to use DR spacers, it meant I needed to replace all of my OEM bolts.

It took me quite a while to figure out exactly what I needed and I never realised a bolt could be quite so complicated.

Anyhow, after a lot of googling I eventually worked out that my OEM bolts were 17mm hex heads, with radius R13 rounded seats, M14x1.5 threads and 26.7mm shaft length.

So I just needed to find the same in shaft lengths of 31-33mm and 41-43mm. This was easy enough for the regular bolts and I went with H&R for these.

However it was not so easy to find security bolts in the lengths I wanted. The only ones I could find were German made Felgenschloss SICUSTARs.

The bad news was these only came in sets of four meaning I had to buy 4 long and 4 short, when I only needed 2 of each. On the plus side I think these are identical to the Audi OEM ones and the good news was that the round plastic cap still fits snugly over the new security bolts.

So to summarise:

Spacers for Audi OEM 20” x 9J ‘5-double-spoke’ design ET29 alloy wheels with 265/30 R20 tyres:

Front = 5mm spacer per wheel, rear = 15mm spacer per wheel.

H&R Trak+ DR 10mm, Part # 1055665, H&R Trak+ DR 30mm Part # 3055665

Front bolts (8 off) H&R 31mm, Part # 1453103, rear bolts (8 off) H&R 43mm, Part # 1454303

Front security bolts (2 off) Felgenschloss SICUSTAR 32mm, Part # FSS-1347 (Alternate part # Sicustar VN532R13)

Rear security bolts (2 off) Felgenschloss SICUSTAR 42mm, Part # FSS-1427 (Alternate part # Sicustar VN542R13)

Hopefully the above info will be helpful to anyone wanting to put spacers on the same wheels.



HTB

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[Covkiller]

4mm spacers all round and flattened not rolled front arches and I ran low on KWv3's.