not wanting to throw petrol on a fire thats already blazing away nicely, but I'm not sure why you'd wanna put Jap car wheels on an Aussie Ford anyway ...get some wheels made for the car - adapters are a bad idea fullstop. No one has mentioned the added strain on your wheel bearings from both the added width of the adapters and of the ginormous wheels with very low profile (compared to what the tyre placard in your car says). I know you're after a look but don't put it before your safety, mate. Nobody is trying to have a go at you, they're just saying you're lucky to be alive. The people who sold you the adapters should be charged - I wonder if they'd be summonsed at the inquiry if your car did crash on the freeway?

Dam I'm glad I got rid of my hub adapters after seeing that. The studs on them are weak.

Yep, I actually meant to say `Jap styled' wheels - I didn't want to get into a whole Fast and Furious comparison thing....but anyway, whatever the reason behind putting wheels on that aren't designed for your car (whether they are rice wheels or BA wheels or whatever), using adapters is still a pretty bad idea for the reasons I mentioned, besides being illegal according to fed rules.....if looks are all that counts to the owner, then go right ahead - just give the rest of us a warning while you're driving it around....

I'm not trying to put anyone down, and I'd be the last person to stop somebody doing their own thing, but doing plainly illegal things to a car which make it really dangerous even at low speeds, particularly when the whole topic started with graphic pictures of the results AND the guy only seems to be concerned with his fender and marker light damage, and then finally to be getting a moderator of the forum defending the whole thing is a bit weird. Lots of inexperienced people read this forum and if they go away from a discussion thinking that its ok to use these adapters it reflects badly on you and the forum. Lets not forget the topic of this thread - Why not to run hub adaptors - this is proof - The whole message originally was about `these are dangerous' and now the guy who came up with the heading and others who like big weird wheels for their looks, bugger what they do for (or to) the car, are defending adaptors!!
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Yes, but it came about that it wasn't the hub adaptors themselves that caused the failure!

Just because there is an ambiguously worded ADR against them, doesn't make them "unsafe".

There have been two incidences on this forum of "hub adaptor failure" that I can recall, this being one of them, and neither were related to the hub adaptor itself.

The government made the law to protect you and the general public.

And this is based on what?
So many people say how dangerous they are and how the law is there to protect and that - but no ones shown any reasoning or proof...
Lot of hollow claims.

I think one of the issues here is that some of the brands of hub adapters sold for falcons actually have Holden thread spacing.

So when people fit them and try fit their ford wheel nuts to them, it doesnt work.

Places like Tempe, tech9 etc sell these brands.

I never said they were unsafe or dangerous.

One of the reason aftermarket hub adapters are illegal is for the following:

They are not manufactured, certified or possibly even designed to meet OEM, ADR or NZS standards and there is no way the manufactuer of an aftermarket hub adapter can properly regulate that the hub, wheel stud / nut or rim/wheel attached to the hub adaptor is correctly fitted or meets OEM, ADR or NZS standards.