How To Solve Wheel Vibration | What Are Hub Centric Rings?

What happens when you install aftermarket wheels and now your car vibrates? In today's video I explain why most aftermarket wheels will need hub centric rings to eliminate vibration. However not all hub centric rings are the same! The aftermarket wheel companies manufacture wheels to fit several brands of cars. So most of the time the center bore of the wheel will be larger than the center hub lip on your car. The hub centric ring will that gap so the wheel rotates perfectly around the center part of the hub on your car. I had a set of hallow plastic hub centric rings and the car had a noticeable vibration going speeds of 30 mph and higher. It was very noticeable and very annoying. It was a constant vibration and a consistent feeling. I even had the wheels re mounted and balanced to hopefully solve the issue. But after swapping the hallow plastic hub centric rings to aluminum ones, the vibration went away. There had to be a lot of flex in the plastic ones and the lug bolts still allowed a bit of movement and created the vibration. With the aluminum hub centric rings the wheels are now perfectly centered on the car hubs and with the lug bolts torqued to spec again, there is no vibration. So make sure if you install aftermarket wheels on your car, have correct high quality hub centric rings to go with them if needed. This drove me crazy and I am glad I learned something new and fixed the issue! Solid polyurethane hub centric rings also work great, just make sure you always have a solid hub centric ring and nothing hallow.

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How To Solve Wheel Vibration | What Are Hub Centric Rings?
#hubcentricrings #wheelcenteringrings #aluminumhubcentricrings

[samgm]

Thanks for video
I had exact same issue with a new golf i just bought and got some new wheels, had annoying vibration at 60mph +. I had tires rebalanced and was afraid i had bad wheel, came across your video and was inspired to get solid aluminum rings, it took care of vibrations completely, drives great now
Thanks again

[its.Andy]

Some mechanic shops definitely need to watch this video. Funny. I literally just got new aftermarket wheels installed today and one of the guys that swapped my tires from my Gramlights 57DR’s to my new Konig Hypergrams took off my hub centric rings and said “hey whoever installed your old wheels decided to put an extra center ring on your hubs.” And I was like 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️bruh it’s not extra. They’re SUPPOSED to be there. So I told them to redo it.

[TroyWetterling]

I just had new aftermarket wheels and tires put on my new Tiguan, around 50 mph I got the shakes and went away until around 70mph. After multiple road force balancing from discount tire the issue never quite went away. After watching your video I replaced the plastic ones with solid aluminum and my vibrations went away. Thanks for the video.

[steveb]

You literally described all the symptoms I've been experiencing.. got new tires, new suspension, wheels balanced etc, couldn't find the issue and remembered I have plastic hub rings from 15k miles ago. Can't wait to get in there and see whats been going on then replace with metal ones

[Surveillance-]

Thank you for this video, this fixed the severe vibration I had on my Lexus GS after getting new wheels. I bought the same ones you linked, installed at discount tire, and solved.

[itsjustjonnoh]

Bro! Thank you for this video.. I just bought some new rims and tires for my truck and didn't even think of this. Just bought some solid ones now before the shop installs my whole setup. I'll just sell the plastic ones. Very great video. Thanks again.

[Crillikin]

This actually may be an answer to an issue I have. Long story short, I spun my car out, damaged the tires and factory wheels (generic steel style) that were on there. I bought a set of generic looking aftermarket steel wheels and new set of tires and had them put on. I started getting a vibration while driving and cruising after that. Took it back to the tire shop I had it done at, and they claimed that there was nothing wrong and they just rebalanced the wheel again. At my current job there's a wheel balancer, so I used it and turned out my wheels were out of balance, so rebalanced them, but the vibration is still present. After seeing your video, I looked up the hub size of my car, and the center bore size of the wheels, and found out the the hub is 56.1mm and the wheels are 72mm.

[jccnguyen]

Thank you for your video, you confirm that I made a good call. I put these into my custom wheels thanks to the shop's owner advice, solid alloy ones.
Never seen those plastic ones by the way.

[LimitLess-]

good info! Even though its short it was great!!

[britpoper]

I agree with what other people have said.Plastic isn't going hold your wheel in place or stop any vibration. They are simply for making it easier to line your wheel up.
The wheel studs do all the work.

[shamimurrohmanali]

Just ordered these got the same car. Same issue. I hope this sorts it. Got the hollow stupid plastic rings. Getting vibration. Hope the metal rings sort this issue.

[rongz]

Other videos on hub rings, they recommend plastic hub rings cause aluminum rings require anti seize or some kind of treatment before installing them so wheels won't be difficult to dismount when you eventually need to rotate or change tires. What say you?

[michaelheffelfinger]

I think the main cause is simply the buyer analyzing the quality of the machining finish of the rims when they arrive especially universal rims. I just went through this and let me tell you from a distance (1') away they look great but the machining is rough when you look at the suff you dont see. My car did the death wobble between 49-55 mph and higher omg it was scary. I got the rings and it fix the issue perfectly. I took the center caps off the rims and every time they were off center to the main hub. The rings made sure it couldnt move at all now its smooth as butter. For 10 more $$ for plastic ones its def gonna be your fix.

[kentdold]

If you don’t have the rings, just center them with tapered lug nuts. You only need two. Finger tighten both, then slightly tighten. Install the correct lug nuts on the other studs, tighten lightly in a star pattern. Remove tapered nuts, install the correct nuts. Tighten and torque all nuts.

[ForestCounter]

How would it be possible to mount the wheels off center, when using the correct bolts for the wheel?

How can the hub help center the wheel, unless it's a press fit?

I can't deny your experiences. It just doesn't make sense to me..

[joe]

Hope you put Anti seized on the rings cause steel on the hub and aluminum rings will fuse together

[TheCdapple]

I’m having the same issue and have the same plastic non solid ones, ordering me a set like yours and praying it gets fixed 😪

[coltuppal]

They used only for alignment. After the nuts are tightened they do absolutely nothing

[RichsRantMMAofficialchannel]

Fitment sold me the hollow plastic ones for $15, tried them and still wobbly… I ordered some aluminum ones on Amazon for $10. I’m hoping this fixes it.

[clarkkent]

The rings do not bear any load.
They are simply for lining up the wheel correctly.