Many of us with service shop work backgrounds agree wtih your dealer. I would never install spacers on my own vehicle, and would discourage any customer from using spacers. Others have reported that BMW dealers have refused to do brake jobs, etc, on vehicles with aftermarket spacers, as they don't want to remount a wheel on a spacer due to the liability risk.

If you do a search on spacers on this forum, you will find a long debate.

Spacers are an example of fashion taking precendence over function. They change the loads on the suspension, alter the front scrub radius and thus the handling, and introduce new failure modes that didn't exist previously. But if fashion is most important, and you decide to do it, you can take some comfort in the fact that others have done it prior to you.

Here is a link to a thread discussing the issues relating to spacers.

http://www.xoutpost.com/bmw-sav-foru...l-spacers.html

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