To have or have not Spigot Rings

[richy22]

Lol..you asked a question and got answers but you aint gonna bother in anycase.
Close thread.

f**k sake someone else not able to read try reading post 15

http://www.cliosport.net/forum/showpost.php?p=5113827&postcount=15

f**k sake! Im not saying they wont be fitted but the only thing people say the problem is, is with vibration.

Being plastic the spigots can't be doing any form of load taking otherwise they would smash???

or post 25

http://www.cliosport.net/forum/showpost.php?p=5113946&postcount=25

The issue isn't about me buying them (as they are already on the way).. it was a genuine question and no real scientific explanation has been given other than "f**king buy some" (not aimed at you!)






Learning to read FTL xxxx

The question/thread was out of curiosity.

 

[Dink]

The weight of the car sits on the spigot of the hub not the wheel bolts when fitted with standard wheels or wheels with the correct centre bore. The bolts are there to hold the wheel on, not hold the weight of the car as well.

so once you lower the car the hub moves down and squeezes the spigot and takes the weight of the car?

which sounds like to me that over time they would enlarge and become useless as the weight would only be at the bottom but being that it rotates it would move the point it squeezes?

 

[Inferno]

The spigot ring is a very tight fit on the hub, there is no free air and no way it can move or deform. I don't see why you'd think the ring would enlarge? Once fitted to the wheel/hub there is no free space for it to move, it essentially becomes a part of the wheel/hub in a sandwich and it's the sandwiching between the wheel and hub that gives it adequate strength to do it's load bearing job.

I've seen it argued that a spigot ring is, in isolation very weak. For example you could tread on it and bend or break it. However try doing that when it is fitted to a hub!

 

[Dink]

but if it was that tight a fit you wouldn't get the wheel on and off?

 

[Inferno]

In my experience they seperate easily from the wheel, but are a pain in the butt to get off the hub (and on for that matter!). To get my plastic ones on the hub I had to resort to heating them in hot water to make them more malleable.

 

[franx]

when taking off my wheels last time i noticed i do'nt have them , but the Turinis sit flush on the hub/axel..

That okay ??

 

[Pregosu]

When choosing the wheel, the best idea is to choose one that doesnt need rings to fit. Since there is a large choice of aftermarket wheels, on some, you need to use rings.
Vibrations are, as some say, a small issue becouse it seems it doesnt do anything else than that- vibrate

Actually, vibration is very bad in the long run. It puts stress on bolts and what most people forget, it puts stress on bearings. So saving money on rings would result in braking perfectyl healty bearings and could damage wheel bolts and they might brake when you try to unscrew them to take the wheel off.
Conclusion is, if you have to you can drive without the rings but it would be best to fit them as soon as you can.

 

[Inferno]

...could damage wheel bolts and they might brake when you try to unscrew them to take the wheel off.

Sorry mate, but they could break when driving.

 

[Pregosu]

...could damage wheel bolts and they might brake when you try to unscrew them to take the wheel off.

Sorry mate, but they could break when driving.

I agree, I forgot to mention that. Tnx.