PDA

View Full Version : Hey all hubcentric users!


rnrn
05-10-2007, 09:15 PM
I found a little trick while rotating the tires for any of you that experience the 55 mph shimmy with new or not seated rings. I drove a couple of blocks to heat the rotors/hubs up. Popped the wheel off and ran a strip of electrical tape around the lip of the hub. Wheel back on. This kept the wheel centered long enough to tighten in place and torque down.

No shimmy. Hope your luck is as good as mine. Ross
Tiger
05-10-2007, 09:50 PM
Not worth the trouble... Long ago, someone did the duct tape trick. I'd say just buy the rings.
Qube
05-10-2007, 10:23 PM
Interesting idea. With the potholes here, it's not worth it though. Now if I were in California... mmmm... I drove in Palo Alto the other week and the roads are like a baby's bottom... smooth as silk!
Tiger
05-11-2007, 05:58 AM
It wouldn't last at all... doesn't matter if you got pothole or not. The bolt will not hold for any good bump.
liquidtiger720
05-11-2007, 10:55 AM
Interesting idea. With the potholes here, it's not worth it though. Now if I were in California... mmmm... I drove in Palo Alto the other week and the roads are like a baby's bottom... smooth as silk!



Palo Alto is not very indicative of the rest of the Bay Area.

*Goes to see Dentist because of roads*
CharlesAFerg
05-11-2007, 12:37 PM
the rings are like 20 bucks, just buy them....
BMWCCA1
05-11-2007, 05:16 PM
I thought he was suggesting the tape to hold the rings in place, not instead of the rings. I use the aluminum rings and Never-Seize to hold them in place on the hubs on my E28.
Macv
05-12-2007, 03:28 AM
thought he was suggesting the tape to hold the rings in place, not instead of the rings

Thats what I thought he meant as well.
Boone.Msi
05-12-2007, 09:48 AM
^^ i believe thats the point too, although ive never had any shimmy problems with mine...
rnrn
05-13-2007, 10:44 PM
only to keep it in place. Not to substitute for the ring itself. Tape keeps the ring from moving just enough for me.
DanDombrowski
05-14-2007, 10:05 AM
I will try this the next time I put the track wheels on. I run staggered 32's, so I don't rotate, but have been having a little bit of trouble getting that last little bit of vibration out, even with the aluminum rings.