You can either bend the mudguard stays or use a longer bolt and space them out (chromoplastics now come with little plastic spacers just for this).
Not rocket science.
Aesthetically, I'd go for p-clips then. I think the long spacer trick looks more like a bodge.
Madness
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You can either bend the mudguard stays or use a longer bolt and space them out (chromoplastics now come with little plastic spacers just for this).
Not rocket science.