New Hankooks and a spacer "issue"

Azroadster

I ordered a set of Hankook V-12's from my local Discount Tire - 275/35 on the front and 305/30's on the back - and had them installed this morning. I will post some pictures this weekend. I previously installed 20mm H&R spacers in the back and 15mm up front. The manager tells me that they won't install the tires with the spacers because they are unsafe!!!

After a short discussion and some actual looking on their part, they installed the tires for me. Their "problem" was that most people (according to them)with spacers buy cheap spacers and don't install longer lugs to make up for the spacer width. After they saw my setup with hubcentric spacers and longer lugs, they agreed to put the tires on. I had to expain to them that I was not an idiot and don't want to wreck my car because of substandard spacers. The owner told me that they have cars come in with washers installed over the lugs to space the wheels out. I understand that people may do such crap, but I most certainly would not.

Anyway, the Hankooks are on and so far they feel awesome! Much quieter than the Bridgestones and they look amazing! I was shocked at the amount of wear on the RE050's. Once they were off the car you could tell how badly worn they were. I have just over 16K on the car. I really hope to get much more mileage from the Hankooks. Like I said, I will post some pictures this weekend.

Thanks to this forum for providing enough information to make a good decision on tires.