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In my opinion, none of them. Get some wheels that are designed with an offset that works for your jeep. Your ball joints and critical suspension parts will thank you.
Your ball joints don’t know the difference between wheel spacers and wheels with less backspacing. How would it be any different?
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Your ball joints don’t know the difference between wheel spacers and wheels with less backspacing. How would it be any different?
The farther you mount a wheel/tire from the rest of the suspension and support elements like the ball joints, the greater the moment you create on them. The distance away (moment arm) determines how much stress you place on the support structure. Jeeps have suspect ball joints to begin with so the added distance matters to their wear. So offset away from the suspension matters.
 

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Spydertrax 1.25”have been on my O5 Rubicon for almost 20 years. Not one issue. I used OE wheels so I ended up with 3.75” back spacing ,no more stress than using after market wheels which I did not want
 

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Ran Spidertrax 1.5" wheel spacers on my old WK Grand Cherokee for YEARS without issues.

You just have to check torque every time you rotate tires...
 

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I'm running the BORA spacers, impressed with their quality
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