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I bought a second hand steel 14" rim for my 1999 Camry. The bolt pattern fits, but the hole in the middle of the rim is about .75 cm too big, so that there's a gap all the way around. I'm not sure how the size of this hole is normally specified - there seems to be a measurement for the distance between the centres of the lug holes, and a measurement for the offset, but nobody seems concerned about the fit of the centre hole for the hub.
Is it a problem that the hole is too big? I theorize that it would be a problem when you hit a pothole and all the stress is borne by the lugs. OTOH, the tire shop I went to says they often install wheels with a gap in the middle and haven't had any problems.
Do I have to order a rim from the dealer to get one that fits properly? Anybody know of an online source that might be cheaper?
go buy a 2ndhand toyota steel wheel, usually getting rings for oem sizes to match another oem bore is quite hard.
you can try that first though.
and that shop should be out of business, thats unsafe practice, sorta.
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125 front wheel horsepower with major retard issues between 4500-5200RPM -
OD switched off, even when not in 3rd results in major power loss/rpm drop.
Usually a set of hub rings would solve your problem. However, your gap is so small that I don't think anyone make hub rings of that size.
The best thing for you to do is sell those second hand wheels. If you have those wheels on, you would have vibration and in the worse scenerio, the studs would break since the weight of the wheel is resting on the studs instead of the hub.
Thanks for the replies. The shop was actually Costco, and all they do is tires! I'm going to measure what I now know is called the centre bore of one of the good wheels and visit a few auto recyclers in Toronto - hopefully one of them will have an oem one. Worst case I'll order one from the dealer, but the Costco guys said that might cost $200 even for a regular steel one, which would really suck.
heres an idea, us eyour spare wheel, and keep the one with the wrong bore as a spare.
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125 front wheel horsepower with major retard issues between 4500-5200RPM -
OD switched off, even when not in 3rd results in major power loss/rpm drop.
That's a good idea but I only have:
3 good, oem rims
1 misfit one
1 slightly bent one that I'm going to use as a spare. (I bent it on a snow-covered triangular piece of curb that stuck out into the road.)
So I need to buy a rim in any case.
Actually, what really sucks is that I spent an hour getting the rust off the second hand rim I bought and spraypainting it. I think they should give me an extra $20 when I return it!
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