I'm thinking about making a set of custom wheel spacers for my W123. I will locate them diametrically and bolt them to the existing hubs and I will tap them or put studs in the spacers for any bolt pattern I need. Material will be 7075 aluminum. The only limiting factor I see is that they will have to be .750" or so minimum thickness to have enough strength and thread depth for the different bolt pattern.

Advantages:

-use of wheels with different offsets

-use of wheels with different bolt pattern

-use of wheels with different locater diameter


I'm pretty much set on a 16" diameter wheel but that's about it.

Can anyone tell me why this wont work? I'm a CAD/CAM/CNC guy by trade so making them is the easy part. I just don't care for the selection of Mercedes wheels that will fit a W123.