Steel Wheel Problems

[mgwatson]

Hey guys,
I recently installed a set of 185/65/15 General Altimax Arctic tires onto a set of 15" x 6" (4/100) steel wheels. They were balanced and mounted by Canadian Tire. At ~80-100km/hr im getting an ever so slight vibration in my steering wheel. Ive taken the car back to them 3 times now for re-balancing and they even tried rotating the fronts to the back and still, the vibration is there. Im just wondering if I'm being too nit-picky with the ride? Should there be a slight vibration in the steering wheel because of the studs? Any feedback would be greatly appreciated

[MINIAC]

If the wheels don't have a centerbore of 56.1mm, where they mounted with hubcentric rings?

[mgwatson]

I have no idea what the diameter of the hub hole is, but no they were not mounted with the rings, and i do know that there is ~3-4mm gap between the hub and the rim hole all the way around

[MINIAC]

You need to get hubcentric rings

[mgwatson]

really hey? i didnt know that they made THAT big of a difference. Why dont other cars need em for their winters, just curious?

[mgwatson]

Does anyone know if hubcentric rings will work for steelies? pleeeeeease help me

cheers!

[cristo]

Do they even make hubcentric rings for steel wheels?

[MINIAC]

Why would wheel composition have anything to do with whether hubcentric rings are available or would work?

You also posted this in another thread ...

Quote: Originally Posted by mgwatson (original)

Hey guys. I recently just bolted on a new set of Winters on a 15" x 6" set of steel wheels. My question was regarding the safety of using the stock tapered bolts (from the alloy wheels) to bolt on the steelies with. The steel wheels are "multi-fit" and therefore have a slight taper to the mounting holes, however the lug bolts dont sink nearly as much into the steelies as they did into the alloys.

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Any thoughts? Thanks

I don't know if you need different wheel bolts, but others running wheels with larger than stock centerbores without hubcentric rings have reported steering wheel vibration at higher speeds.

[mgwatson]

hmmm, i really have no idea what to do then . Anyone know where i can get a set of steel wheels that would sit flush on my hubs without hubcentric rings?

[MINIAC]

Have you tried getting hubcentric rings?

[mgwatson]

not yet. its because they would be like $45 and if i spent that on something that didnt work id be choked. I just wanna make sure that there are people out there that have had success with the rings on steelies before i do it.