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Originally Posted by BlaineWasHere
Not matter what anyone says you DON'T NEED THEM!!!! They do nothing to hold the wheel onto the car!!!
However I DO run them in all of my wheels becuase it makes it way easier to swap out wheels and tires and they are also dirt cheap. They do, do a job, it's just a non essential one. On cars with no studs and lug bolts it's a little more important to run hub rungs because there are no studs to hold the wheel on during tire changes and stripping lug bolts is more likely.
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Centering rings are an installation guide tool and really nothing else. The lug nuts properly seated to the wheels is what truly centers them and holds the wheel to the hub from the clamping action between the two surfaces (spindle hub and wheel hub interaction.) The rings can also melt/distort from track use (wheels get hot with track use! Touch one after coming in from a track session...) so I don't even use them on my track set. For my daily sets I leave them on if they have them... no issue if they don't or they become cracked/brittle with age; properly installing the wheel and securing the lug nuts in sequence by hand before tightening and torquing is what properly centers the wheel.