Legal custom wheels/offset

vduboy Insano Dub Head

702 posts · joined Oct 2012 · 11 Feb 2015, 7:34 pm

#1008261

Hi guys, wondering if anyone can steer me in the direction of someone who can supply/make wheels in Sydney (or thereabouts) in a VW 4x130 PCD but with the correct offsets as not to piss off the engineer?
Just got my 6 inch vw wheels back from the 'fabricator' after having the offsets corrected and they are wobbly as all crap! easy 10mm of runout, and they were straight when I sent them to him... 😬
So trying to get them repaired but if they are stuffed then I will need another solution.
Any clues are much appreciated!

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Bizarre Moderator The artist formerly known as blue74l

12,789 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 11 Feb 2015, 8:06 pm

#1008265

Have you tried Morton & May?

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vduboy Insano Dub Head

702 posts · joined Oct 2012 · 11 Feb 2015, 8:08 pm

#1008266

I called them today but couldn't get there from Hornsby before they closed, will be seeing them if my frame/wheel guy from work cant do anything with them.
Cheers.

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helbus Administrator Mad fabricator, paint and body

7,386 posts · joined Sep 2002 · 11 Feb 2015, 9:46 pm

#1008270

AJAX wheels in Moorabbin VIC are gurus, and have modified and supplied wheels forever. It could be worth calling them and freighting them to get the info and get the job done right.

http://ajaxwheels.com.au/

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vlad01 Compulsive Aussie Vee Dubber

4,270 posts · joined Jun 2010 · 12 Feb 2015, 11:33 pm

#1008324

10mm runout? holy shit, really? that bad?

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Past owner of, 70 NB, 73 SB and 72 FB TLE

vduboy Insano Dub Head

702 posts · joined Oct 2012 · 13 Feb 2015, 12:08 pm

#1008342

vlad01 wrote:10mm runout? holy shit, really? that bad?

Yeah unfortunately, I may have exaggerated a mill or so but it is at least 5mm laterally on all of them. Measuring the backspace it differs between 124, 125,126 and 123 on the same wheel.

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vlad01 Compulsive Aussie Vee Dubber

4,270 posts · joined Jun 2010 · 14 Feb 2015, 9:43 pm

#1008425

thats bad. i thought 0.1mm was bad but this.

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bussboy Seriously Crusin Dubber

138 posts · joined Dec 2004 · 14 Feb 2015, 10:09 pm

#1008427

Just to fill in a gap in this, the wheel assoc standard is 70 thou runout (1.7mm), mercedes on the other hand is 1.0mm. Runout measurement needs to be done on a trueing stand not a balancer, have seen some great discrepincies over the years.

vlad01 Compulsive Aussie Vee Dubber

4,270 posts · joined Jun 2010 · 14 Feb 2015, 10:52 pm

#1008430

damn thats a lot for standards.

i've never seen any on alloy wheels of mine, fraction of a mm at the most on steel due to manufacturing limitation obviously certainly not close to a 1mm.

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vduboy Insano Dub Head

702 posts · joined Oct 2012 · 15 Feb 2015, 7:23 am

#1008435

bussboy wrote:Just to fill in a gap in this, the wheel assoc standard is 70 thou runout (1.7mm), mercedes on the other hand is 1.0mm. Runout measurement needs to be done on a trueing stand not a balancer, have seen some great discrepincies over the years.

Yeah that was on a truing stand.. 😢
I lace up and true the spoke motorbike wheels at work, mine never go out the door unless they have less than a 1mm, But even in the RTA/RMS data they have some ridiculous specs for runout/play in parts, like 6mm at the rim edge, if a bike has that much play there is about 20 seconds till the wheel bearings collapse!

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