aftermarket wheels with lug-centric design
Considering adding some aftermarket Dick Cepek GM7 wheels to my otherwise stock Ram1500. I've been doing quite a bit of research on the concerns of going from the factory hub-centric wheels to an af...
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smkettner wrote:
Lug centric should not be an issue. The seller/installer will need to use lug centric balancing and should warranty vs having any issues.
Most of the balancing machines I have seen use the wheel pilot to center the wheel on the balancing machine by use of centering cones and not any sort of lug system and as such they are NOT LUG CENTRIC BALANCING. The most common is the COATS which uses the cone centering system using the wheel pilot. If there are adapters that use the studs to mount the wheel I sure wouldn't pay to have a tire/wheel balanced that way since repeating the exact same centering via the lugs with an oversized wheel pilot is basically impossible. As I mentioned the wheel pilots are not so oversized that true lug centric centering is possible. The wheel will hit the hub shoulder in several places as the lug nuts are tightened against the conical seats in the wheel.
About the only way around this is to do on vehicle balancing and then that must be redone if the wheel is loosened and is not something just any tire shop has the equipment to do IIRC.
Larry
