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Originally Posted by Yoshoobaroo
I'm not worried about the conical seats.
The hole pattern in the hub is not nearly as accurate as the surface of the hub bore, hence why I mentioned bolt circle tolerances.
I've used conical lugs without a hubcentric ring and gotten significantly vibrations in the wheel. I'd rather use the hub surface if it was designed for it.
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Are you suggesting that a plastic ring will hold the wheel in place more than 5 steel lugs/studs properly torqued down? If the lug bores aren't centered properly around the bolt circle the metal lugs and studs will definitely squish the plastic ring vs offsetting themselves within the bores.
If you're properly torquing down wheels (wheel in the air, star pattern a bit at a time), the wheel will absolutely center itself. If you set the car down before the lugs are seated properly, then you'll definitely get a wobble. Going into my 6th summer with the car running RPF1's without centering rings, no vibrations ever.