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| Osnabruck914 |
 Jan 9 2026, 04:15 PM
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Member  Group: Members Posts: 195 Joined: 19-December 22 From: United States Member No.: 27,038 Region Association: South East States  |
Having been doing a lot of suspension work on my 914 of late, has necessitated unmounting and mounting my wheels repeatedly. Putting the hub-centric fronts back on is a piece of cake, but those damn lug-centric rears are always a pain to line up the lug nut holes, especially in the bright Florida sunshine. Is there a reason Porsche chose lug-centric for the rears? If there is, then I can more readily accept the aggravation they cause. Is there a hack to make it easier? Someone please educate me...Thanks.
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| Ninja |
Jan 9 2026, 05:26 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 68 Joined: 25-September 25 From: Granbury Texas Member No.: 29,004 Region Association: Southwest Region |
Both "Hub-centric" and studs are the recipe in my book.
My current set up uses 14-6 rotors drilled for 5 lug (PMBs stuff) with studs. This set up is still lug centric in the back. A member on here CNCd a set of hub-centic adaptors. I bought extras... The reason they went lug centric was associated with cost IMO. It very quickly became apparent that a hub centric mounting was significantly stronger and easier to achieve wheel centering during installation. In accidents the wheels stayed on the cars better with hub centric mounting. I do not believe I've seen lug centric mounting on ANYTHING built in the last 3 decades... |
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Osnabruck914 Curse Those Rear Lug-Centric Wheels Jan 9 2026, 04:15 PM
Superhawk996 RE: Curse Those Rear Lug-Centric Wheels Jan 9 2026, 04:36 PM Osnabruck914 Thanks, Superhawk. I was not aware such a kit exi... Jan 9 2026, 04:49 PM Craigers17 I haven't tried them, but Tangerine offers a H... Jan 9 2026, 04:53 PM
rfinegan Depending on you wheels CFR has some hub centric a... Jan 9 2026, 05:40 PM |
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