Bus Rims Circle vs Patterned Centers?

airkooledchris · Post by **airkooledchris** » Fri Oct 16, 2015 1:07 pm

VS

The center bore is perfectly round in the second one. There is also a difference in how well defined those little bumps are around the inner circle.

Was there a particular year they switched to using one Vs the other?

asiab3 · Post by **asiab3** » Fri Oct 16, 2015 1:49 pm

I've never seen the one on the top before. I'm interested to learn where it came from. Don't tire balancing shops prefer the centric hole for easy of mounting?

Robbie

Post by **Amskeptic** » Fri Oct 16, 2015 7:00 pm

asiab3 wrote:I've never seen the one on the top before. I'm interested to learn where it came from. Don't tire balancing shops prefer the centric hole for easy of mounting?

Robbie

The one on the top is the one fitted to every perforated disk wheel Volkswagen bus/Vanagon I have ever seen, save for some owner's manuals tire change pictures . . . .

Road Warrior Sep 2007

BobD 2010

Some Vanagon owner's manual:

Oh look, some crappy 90's mexican parts catalogue shows the round centers . . .

kreemoweet · Post by **kreemoweet** » Fri Oct 16, 2015 8:29 pm

All five of my '71 bus wheels have the perfectly round holes. I feel lucky.

airkooledchris · Post by **airkooledchris** » Sun Oct 18, 2015 12:54 pm

The one in the picture is date stamped 5/76.

Thus far it seems the only thing we know for sure is that we don't know. =) More to come?

71whitewesty · Post by **71whitewesty** » Sun Oct 18, 2015 7:54 pm

My 71's are all stamped 71 as well. I have a couple of the later style mixed in on one bus. Not sure what year the change over was.

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Bus Rims Circle vs Patterned Centers?

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