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Hey everyone. I searched the forums here and wasn’t able to find info for the Civic Si Sedan regarding spacers.

I want the wheels to be flush to the body for a bit more of an aggressive look. My question is has anyone put spacers on their sedans? My mechanic said I should get 20mm in the front and 25mm in the back...does that sound about right?

If you are running spacers is there any feedback/info you can share? Are they worth it? I daily my car so don’t want to do anything that will be a negative effect in the long term.

Thanks for anything you can share and apologies if this is redundant question that been answered.
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This is my Si with factory wheels, lowered on the eibach pro kit with 20mm spacers.

I folded the fender tab above the corner light for clearance, even then I found a tiny bit of rubber on the inside edge of the corner light.

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I ran 20mm Garageline spacers the whole way around my 2018 Civic Sport.

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I hear the term "flush" being thrown around rather liberally on the forums a lot. I've come to the conclusion that everyone has their own interpterion of what "flush" actually means.

I feel "flush" means the top of the tire is as close to the fender as possible without any "poke" past the fender.

I ran 20mm Front and 25mm Rear Garageline Spacers. Naturally, from the factory, most FWD cars have a wider track up front VS the rear. If you go with 20mm front/rear the front will always look wider and the rear will not be "flush". Instead the rear will be inset about 5mm. Not visible to most, but obvious to those that are obsessed with achieving a true Flushed look.

By running 20m Front and 25mm Rear, the wheels will look "flush".



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I hear the term "flush" being thrown around rather liberally on the forums a lot. I've come to the conclusion that everyone has their own interpterion of what "flush" actually means.

I feel "flush" means the top of the tire is as close to the fender as possible without any "poke" past the fender.

I ran 20mm Front and 25mm Rear Garageline Spacers. Naturally, from the factory, most FWD cars have a wider track up front VS the rear. If you go with 20mm front/rear the front will always look wider and the rear will not be "flush". Instead the rear will be inset about 5mm. Not visible to most, but obvious to those that are obsessed with achieving a true Flushed look.

By running 20m Front and 25mm Rear, the wheels will look "flush".

Thank you, I agree with your definition of “flush”
I just don’t want them to be poking outside the fenders. Your car looks great, Honda should have just made them come like this from factory.


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How about spacers on a stock height car? Anyone run that before just to get the more aggressive look.
 

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I hear the term "flush" being thrown around rather liberally on the forums a lot. I've come to the conclusion that everyone has their own interpterion of what "flush" actually means.

I feel "flush" means the top of the tire is as close to the fender as possible without any "poke" past the fender.

I ran 20mm Front and 25mm Rear Garageline Spacers. Naturally, from the factory, most FWD cars have a wider track up front VS the rear. If you go with 20mm front/rear the front will always look wider and the rear will not be "flush". Instead the rear will be inset about 5mm. Not visible to most, but obvious to those that are obsessed with achieving a true Flushed look.

By running 20m Front and 25mm Rear, the wheels will look "flush". Are you running a camber kit?



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That is the look I'm after. What springs did you go with? Are you running a camber kit?
 

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Eibach Pro-Kit.

Natural Camber, no camber kit. Front shock towers are maxed out using factory slots (aprox 0.25 degree of adjustment)

Specs are roughly Front -1.1 and Rear is -2.1
 

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I have 20MM front and rear stock height. Looks way better. I don’t have before after pics tho...but I can take some tomorrow
 


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Eibach Pro-Kit.

Natural Camber, no camber kit. Front shock towers are maxed out using factory slots (aprox 0.25 degree of adjustment)

Specs are roughly Front -1.1 and Rear is -2.1
Can you explain what you mean by using factory slots ? I don’t know much about suspension geometry so I plan to take it to a shop and likely just show him the specs you said and hope he understands lol.
Also, where did you order the spacers ?
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Good to know! So you think with the pro kit you can get away without a camber kit and stay within alignment specs by doing this?
 

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Front will be fine but rear will be out of spec.

Most people get -2.1 to -2.6 in the rear.

I believe Max factory spec for rear is -1.9.
Roger that. So I just need to get a camber kit for the rear.
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