first, i think this thread should be moved and renamed.....
now, lets take the 14 sets of custom wheels i have owned (and installed myself) on 7 different vehicles i have put them on......just place that aside for later in this post.
now add the cars/trucks that i sold wheels to when i worked at cs motorsports in gastonia. i worked there for 5 years. at an average of about 2 sets a day (average may be low, some days we had 5 and 6 sets go out) at 6 days a week for 5 years that equals about 3120. now for the sake of argument lets call it half of that at 1560 sets sold. of those maybe a 1/4 or less were european cars that require hubcentric rings. that would leave 1170. for the sake of argument lets call it even at 1000 sets. of those we used "NO" hubcentric rings and had "NO" issues of wobbling, rattling, shaking, loosening, breaking, leaning, grinding, knocking, slapping, chattering or any other desriptive word you can come up with.
as i said, i have had 14 sets of aftermarket wheels and have never used hubcentric rings.
now if that wasnt enough, i did some research....
by phone: called 7 of the local wheel and tire installation facilities locally and 6 said they were not needed at all.....the one was the local german performance shop (see a trend here?)
on the net: found alot of discussion about it .....most people say they are not needed.....some of the best debates were on honda-tech and mx5miata.net.
but nothing set in stone....and it is my experience they arent needed either.
now, lets take the 14 sets of custom wheels i have owned (and installed myself) on 7 different vehicles i have put them on......just place that aside for later in this post.
now add the cars/trucks that i sold wheels to when i worked at cs motorsports in gastonia. i worked there for 5 years. at an average of about 2 sets a day (average may be low, some days we had 5 and 6 sets go out) at 6 days a week for 5 years that equals about 3120. now for the sake of argument lets call it half of that at 1560 sets sold. of those maybe a 1/4 or less were european cars that require hubcentric rings. that would leave 1170. for the sake of argument lets call it even at 1000 sets. of those we used "NO" hubcentric rings and had "NO" issues of wobbling, rattling, shaking, loosening, breaking, leaning, grinding, knocking, slapping, chattering or any other desriptive word you can come up with.
as i said, i have had 14 sets of aftermarket wheels and have never used hubcentric rings.
now if that wasnt enough, i did some research....
by phone: called 7 of the local wheel and tire installation facilities locally and 6 said they were not needed at all.....the one was the local german performance shop (see a trend here?)
on the net: found alot of discussion about it .....most people say they are not needed.....some of the best debates were on honda-tech and mx5miata.net.
but nothing set in stone....and it is my experience they arent needed either.
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