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    10-02-2012 08:37 PM #1
    So the wheels use ball seat lug nuts and hubcentric rings. Well you see the wheel moving up and down when in gear and the car in the air. I'm being told I can buy special lug nuts that have a little lip on the end that will "fill the gap" between the stud and lug hole in the wheel. I cannot find these online. Does such a thing exist?
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    10-02-2012 11:37 PM #2
    If the wheels have hub centering rings and you have the bolts tightened down, I don't see how you could mount the wheel off center. When you say up and down, do you mean spinning the wheel up in the air it isn't turning true, or is their up and down play when the wheel is static?
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    10-03-2012 10:45 PM #3
    Quote Originally Posted by 4ceFed4 View Post
    If the wheels have hub centering rings and you have the bolts tightened down, I don't see how you could mount the wheel off center. When you say up and down, do you mean spinning the wheel up in the air it isn't turning true, or is their up and down play when the wheel is static?
    1) The wheel specs I found online weren't correct. So my hubcentric adapters aren't correct. The info I found said they had a 66.56 center bore but these are larger. I measured and got somewhere around 72.56. I can't find anywhere that Mercedes had anything but a 66.56 centerbore, yet another friend of mine said they do come larger.
    2) I bought hubrings for 72.56mm but they are too small. So I have no clue what the centerbore for this wheel is.
    3) There isn't any wheel play. The wheel just isn't true to center.
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