Our GTI (and previously Golf TDI) sets of winter wheels required centering rings... They were MSW going on VW hubs. I ended up leaving the rings on the wheels with no ill effect, just make sure they don't get lost. They seem flimsy but they are not weight-bearing, never caused any wobbles.

Wheel/tire minutiae... The worst was the S4 where I went with BBS SR for winter. They required centering rings AND different bolts (conical vs. spherical). And they needed locks as I occasionally parked outside and they were more than decent for winter wheels. And that lock set needed to be different from the summer lock set. So two sets of wheels/tires, centering rings, two sets of lug bolts, two sets of wheel locks, none of them interchangeable. :ack: :ack:

Fun times at the tire shop during swapping... I go to a shop where I can 100% supervise/micromanage the process.

His list is cumulative, he keeps adding whatever he has owned. :lol: If I did that, I might break vBulletin.

Oh yes, these require different bolts too. :ack:

The E46 is way more blue..
Fixed!

"What Tesla’s ‘Delivery Logistics Hell’ Is Like for Model 3 Buyers":

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/15/b...ction=Business

Lug nuts are my personal hell, courtesy overthinking. The Focus and Camaro come with nuts covered in chrome sheaths that warp, twist and degrade with multiple on/off cycles, so they need replacement. Replacement nuts are not quite as long (tiny bit shorter), so my head thinks, "less clamping force, hmm, dunno, about that, seen a lot of wheels come off cars, don't want to be that guy" and this leads to inaction with the Camaro. The OE wheels and lugnuts have not been on/off that many times, but the nuts are showing wear and I can feel it when I put a socket on them.

And I just shake my head at myself.

I truly don’t understand the hard on the NYT has for anti-Tesla stories.

https://jalopnik.com/tesla-model-3-o...wed-1830422030

:lol:

Matt, those wheels look great, how were they today in this snowy weather ?

Clyde you’ve got me thinking ... I’ve got to switch out the Porsche wheels for the winter ... do I need to change he lug nuts ? I’ve done the swap I think for the last 4 years ... how do you tell if a wheel bolt needs to be replaced ? I never had a car this long that I switched out the wheels so much ... Btw anyone can chime in it’s just that Clyde brought it up and got me thinking.

AF I didn't drive on them yet. I kept it in the garage for this mess...


Regarding lug nuts... You've changed them 4 times. You're fine. Clyde & company are swapping there wheels every weekend or two for races so they get a lot more use.

C'mon man. AWD plus snows? Go out there, find some empty spots (not hard where you live) and have some fun. But I could see that your driveway may have been blocked, buried by your other not snow-tired vehicles.

This storm really came early. LI got a fair amount but not as much as the Northern and Western suburbs.