I like the look of the slightly wider stance on some worked Fiestas. It looks more aggressive, fills the wheel wells out better and, I assume, makes the car less twitchy over bumps. I'd be looking at 10-15mm per side. Which is better from an engineering perspective: lowering the wheel offset or adding wheel spacers? I'd like to keep the setup as strong as possible, given the terrible roads here. 

I'm currently on the Sports/Zetec S stock suspension with 195/50R16s but am thinking of slightly lowering all round on Eibach springs and changing to 205/45R16s or 205/40R17s. 

6 hours ago, ThaiFiesta said:

I like the look of the slightly wider stance on some worked Fiestas. It looks more aggressive, fills the wheel wells out better and, I assume, makes the car less twitchy over bumps. I'd be looking at 10-15mm per side. Which is better from an engineering perspective: lowering the wheel offset or adding wheel spacers? I'd like to keep the setup as strong as possible, given the terrible roads here. 

I'm currently on the Sports/Zetec S stock suspension with 195/50R16s but am thinking of slightly lowering all round on Eibach springs and changing to 205/45R16s or 205/40R17s. 

I'm planning on doing the exact same bud. Will be purchasing the eibach 30-35mm drop springs this week. I have been looking for spacers for mine, and the only really decent ones I had found are The eibach pro spacer kit 15mm 4stud. But at over £100 I'm thinking is it worth it? 

will keep looking around for some but these seem like best option for style along with the driving aspects. 

Let me know if you seem to find anymore!!

will

On 9/14/2016 at 7:12 PM, WillKinsella said:

I'm planning on doing the exact same bud. Will be purchasing the eibach 30-35mm drop springs this week. I have been looking for spacers for mine, and the only really decent ones I had found are The eibach pro spacer kit 15mm 4stud. But at over £100 I'm thinking is it worth it? 

will keep looking around for some but these seem like best option for style along with the driving aspects. 

Let me know if you seem to find anymore!!

will

I went for the Eibach Pro Spacer kit - works really nicely I think to fill the arches and together with a 30-35mm drop will look awesome! I went for H&R Sport Springs to drop mine but same difference! 

Enjoy!

44 minutes ago, awp868 said:

I went for the Eibach Pro Spacer kit

Thanks. What size spacers did you get?

9 hours ago, ThaiFiesta said:

Thanks. What size spacers did you get?

I went for 15mm each side so total track widening of 30mm front and rear - I think if you went for the wider ones more work would need to be done to get them to fit!

20 hours ago, awp868 said:

I went for the Eibach Pro Spacer kit - works really nicely I think to fill the arches and together with a 30-35mm drop will look awesome! I went for H&R Sport Springs to drop mine but same difference! 

Enjoy!

Sounds good! Held back on the springs as I want to buy both them and the spaces together so can fit them same time. Hopefully purchase them both in the next two weeks and have them fitted when I can find time! Did you fit the spacers yourself, if so how easy/hard where they to fit

Spacers are dead easy - good excuse to balance the wheels again as well... Just torque the spacers to the hub at the recommended wheel torque values as you're golden - probably re-torque shortly after to ensure no slippage :) 

On 15 September 2016 at 4:12 AM, WillKinsella said:

 the only really decent ones I had found are The eibach pro spacer kit 15mm 4stud. But at over £100 I'm thinking is it worth it? 

will keep looking around for some but these seem like best option for style along with the driving aspects. 

Let me know if you seem to find anymore

The other option, if you're changing wheels, is to get wheels with a 15mm lower offset. That will have the same effect as 15mm spacers and, depending on the wheel type, should reduce unsprung weight.