Why you NEED to research your aftermarket wheels before purchasing

So what did KMC say?
I would think #3 is where it went sideways..

 

sounds like you just volunteered for that

 

SCS Ray10's are stamped JWL

 

I just confirmed with SCS wheels that all their offerings are JWS/VIA certified!

 

VIA 1000 KG

 

Oof I'm so hurt

 

They sold me a replacement at cost. But I'm ripping them all off and stepping up to some forged wheels. Must have had a shit representative at 4WP when i purchased, because when I went back in with the busted rim all the customer service guys said KMC is a pavement princess wheel. That they wouldn't recommend them for my use case. This next purchase is definitely getting their extended warranty, it covers everything but competition use. Looks like method offers a forged JWL VIA certified wheel.

 

Yep they confirmed me with as well, but actually advised against using their wheels for my use case too. They said for the stuff I'm doing they'd recommend moving to Forged, which they don't offer, because of more race-like use case.

 

What the hell are you doing?

 

I agree 100% that today we don't need government regulations on wheels. I think there would need to be something as big as the Firestone/Ford Explorer tire failure to make a change and there just aren't enough aftermarket wheel failures to justify the time and expense to build, educate, and enforce a standard.

I will say on the other side what happens without regulations is you end up with brands like Tesla selling their driver assist beta testing program as fully autonomous "Auto-Pilot" when it's shown to have major problems in real life use.

 

Yo link me that vid!

 

I wish they were true hubcentric...
I wish a lot more companies offered true hubcentric.

 

They are hub centric though?

They fit the hub bore better than my OEM TRD O/R snowflakes did.

Not sure what you mean otherwise?

 

Yea, we don't need the big bad government unless something catastrophic happens, then gov reg is ok i think... Free market bro! Always gets it right until it never did because problems were swept under the rug until it couldn't be contained anymore...

Do some of you read what you write? lol

 

Boy that sounds a lot like politics.

 

Unless it uses flat-washer lugnuts, it is lug centric which has a bore that happens to be sized for the hub.
At best, it is 50% lugcentric, 50% hubcentric.
If the center of the bolt circle coincides with the center of the hub bore, it's usually a non-issue. If they don't, the two centering methods fight each other.

Granted, this has a bore larger than 106mm...see the problem? Hub spacers are not going to solve it.

 

I...

What.

 

@3JOH22A bro post the whistling diesel video please!!

 

Check my edit...
It is you, who do not understand.

 

The lug nut used doesn't relate to being hub centric, hub centric means solely that the wheel is centered by the hub bore, period.


Both these lug nuts use a flat washer seat, one is hub centric the other lug centric.



Full article and extensive information and term definition here:


http://www.nissantechnicianinfo.mobi/htmlversions/Winter_2012/Hub-Lug_Centric.html