Other Parts

About Other Parts

This is the bin for parts with no category of their own that still decide how install day goes. Hub centric rings, which close the gap between a wheel bore and a smaller hub. Valve stems in rubber and metal. TPMS service kits with the seal, nut and core a sensor wants when the tire comes off. Wheel weights, cap adapters and touch up paint. Add what you need to a wheel order right here and it'll travel with the wheels.

Rings are the part people skip and then regret. An aftermarket wheel is bored large so it suits a lot of cars, and the ring brings that down to your hub. Leave it out and the wheel centers on the lug taper, which works until it doesn't, and a vibration at speed is how you find out. The wheel listing shows the ring size your car wants.

Rings filter by hub bore, service kits by sensor, stems by hole size, all against the car you saved. Ordering bare wheels to mount locally? Add the rings, stems and sensors here and your tire shop gets a complete kit in one box. Put them on a package instead and they're fitted before it leaves, mounted and balanced.

Common questions

Do I need hub centric rings

If the wheel bore is bigger than your hub, yes, and on most aftermarket wheels it is. The ring centers the wheel on the hub so the studs only have to clamp, which is how your car was built. Without one even a careful install can sit slightly off, and it'll shake at speed. The wheel listing shows the size and this page sells it.

What is in a TPMS service kit

The rubber seal, the nut or grommet, the valve core and the cap your sensor uses to seal against the wheel. Those pieces are single use. Any time a tire comes off that sensor, the seal wants replacing or the sensor starts leaking air slowly. One kit per sensor, and it's listed beside the sensor it belongs to.

Metal or rubber valve stems

Rubber snap in stems for a street car with no sensor, metal clamp in stems for a wheel running a sensor or seeing high speed. Rubber is cheap and fast. Metal seals with a nut, handles heat better and looks tidier on a machined wheel. Sensors sit on a metal stem in almost every kit, and you'll find it included with the sensor.

Do packages come with center caps

Almost always, from the wheel maker, and the wheel listing says when a cap is sold on its own instead. The adapters on this page are for wheels that need one to take a factory cap or a different size. If a cap is separate, it shows as its own line on the wheel page so you're not guessing at checkout.