When buying aftermarket rims, how can you tell if they are hub centric or not, I have never seen any aftermarket rims with these designations. Is driving on aftermarket rims that rest on the studs dangerous? Does anyone make shims that would fit between the rims and hubs?

Just measure the hole size of your factory wheels and match that to the new wheels you buy. I think hub centric are probably the best but I have run bolt centric wheels on a lot of my trucks and have not had any problems. I think the trick is to torque the wheels when you put them on and then again in fifty miles and then again in about 100 miles. I seems to always take 3 times for them to stay tight. I made spacers for the inside of my wheels on one of my trucks and I can't realy say it made any difference. I'm sure others will have other opinions on this matter.

I've run bolt centric wheels for years on our trucks w/o any trouble.


One advantage to the H2 wheels, same hub size as our trucks.

IIRC most of the aftermarket wheel companies are on top of this and make their wheels hub centric. I know some of the lower brand name wheels are not, but wheels like American Racing, Weld, American Eagle, Alcoa, etc are all hub centric. Should not have anything to worry about and if you are that concerned, when you order wheels, just ask....