Redrilling wheels to make them mopar PCD

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Thu Mar 30, 06 12:38 pm

Anyone know anyone in the South East who could slot some chevy pattern(?) wolfrace to 4.5 pcd? seen a set of wheels cheap

BUDGIE · Post by **BUDGIE** » Thu Mar 30, 06 5:15 pm

DON'T do it

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Thu Mar 30, 06 6:04 pm

can you explain?
(or tell me where theres a set of 15 inch alloys that will go on my car:)

BUDGIE · Post by **BUDGIE** » Thu Mar 30, 06 10:15 pm

WillDatsun wrote:can you explain?
(or tell me where theres a set of 15 inch alloys that will go on my car:)

Will, nut's may well secure the wheel, but it is located correctly by the
hub to wheel center, without this correct location you will almost certainly
have an imbalance symptom. You could fit "spigot rings" to overcome
this. I would not advise you to "re-drill" any wheel, no mater what the application, I have seen some real nasty's belive me

BTW if your not in a hurry, I will have a set of 15"x7" Turbo-ves's come
mid/late April.

Guy · Post by **Guy** » Thu Mar 30, 06 11:09 pm

when I was in the tyre trade I saw some of these redrilled wheels not nice.can make the wheel rim weak in a very important area I was called onto the motorway one night whilst on call to fit a spare wheel on a peug 205 only to find that the wheelnuts had not come off but the centre of the wheel had come apart

this car had redrilled rims on it

Kev · Post by **Kev** » Fri Mar 31, 06 12:21 am

So what gives with the multi slots some of us have? Are they bad, or rubbish? Tell us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TrevD · Post by **TrevD** » Fri Mar 31, 06 7:23 am

some wheels were and still are suplied with more than one set of holes , unilug wheels were all the rage a while back(cheaper for the manufacturer) i would sugest not sloting the wheels but instead drilling a complete new set of holes (only possible if the mounting flange of the wheel is solid) i agree with the others , this is a last resort and whatever way yo go you must ensure a good wheel centre to hub location (spigot rings)

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Fri Mar 31, 06 12:07 pm

I figured slotting the existing rather than drilling new would be safer as leaving more metal. And surely it would locate ok beacuse all the slots are at different angles so each one would stop the next moving ?

I already bought the wolfrace now, but I guess I could sell them again.

Budgie, definately interested, dropping you an email now.

Dave-R · Post by **Dave-R** » Fri Mar 31, 06 12:15 pm

Kev wrote:So what gives with the multi slots some of us have? Are they bad, or rubbish? Tell us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They were designed to be slotted Kev. Very thick in that area for extra strength if you look. Also they use those long nuts that go through the wheel and a big washer spreading the load.

It may well be possible to reproduce this on a non-slotted wheel if it is thick enough but I wouldn't risk my life doing it. As others have said. Not enough good engineers. Too many horror stories. You are basically moving the stresses and loads to an area outside of the design parameters.

Guy · Post by **Guy** » Fri Mar 31, 06 1:23 pm

Also they use those long nuts that go through the wheel and a big washer spreading the load.

These are spigot wheels

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Fri Mar 31, 06 1:47 pm

I thought the spiggot was the spacer in the centre bore, not the washers on the lugs themselves.

Guy · Post by **Guy** » Fri Mar 31, 06 2:16 pm

Wheels that do not centre on the wheel nut i.e tapered nuts are spigot wheels they usually centre them selfs onto a spacer in the centre bore but can locate on dowels damm nighmare to get off and on when disimular metals are used alloy/steel quite rare to see these days as they were a poor design last one i saw was on a fiat truck of about 1950 (no it didnt have alloy wheels)

BUDGIE · Post by **BUDGIE** » Fri Mar 31, 06 6:51 pm

It's a simple rule Kev, like Dave said, multi fitment are designed as such,
Just FORGET ANY DRILLING

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Wed Apr 05, 06 1:03 pm

back to the original question though - anywhere that does this?