Bus Rims Circle vs Patterned Centers?
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Bus Rims Circle vs Patterned Centers?
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?
1979 California Transporter
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Re: Bus Rims Circle vs Patterned Centers?
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
Robbie
1969 bus, "Buddy."
145k miles with me.
322k miles on Earth.
145k miles with me.
322k miles on Earth.
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Re: Bus Rims Circle vs Patterned Centers?
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 . . . .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
Road Warrior Sep 2007
BobD 2010
Some Vanagon owner's manual:
Oh look, some crappy 90's mexican parts catalogue shows the round centers . . .
BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
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Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
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Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
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Re: Bus Rims Circle vs Patterned Centers?
All five of my '71 bus wheels have the perfectly round holes. I feel lucky.
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Re: Bus Rims Circle vs Patterned Centers?
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?
Thus far it seems the only thing we know for sure is that we don't know. =) More to come?
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Re: Bus Rims Circle vs Patterned Centers?
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.