Overloaded wheel Breakage
OUCH! This was very interesting, now I am glad we got rid of our stock wheels. In our case the 3500 Dodge SRW came with tires rated at about 3000 pounds each, I tried to find out what the wheel ...
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Hub centric wheels are more for convenience than load bearing , it helps center the wheel before final torqing the lug nuts . If it were for weight bearing it would have to be machined to much tighter tolerance and pressed fit .Almost all oem wheels now are hub centric for this reason , even on small cars . With lug centric wheels more care has to be taken to gradually tighten the cone lug nuts to insure they are all centered in the holes before final torque . Almost no aftermarket wheels are hub centric , including 19.5" , yet some have higher load ratings than oem wheels . 1ton and above dual wheel lug nuts have washers instead of cone shape to exert even more clamping force . It is also way they should be hub centric or have centering rings .
