Wheel Brands.

[Pitsmoor Col]

Are there any other brands of wheels that will fit my C Class W205 ie VW. / Ford etc. ?

 

[ALFAitalia]

Many cars from European manufacturers, including Audi, Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen, and newer BMW models, use a 5x112 bolt pattern. This pattern is also used on some vehicles from brands like Alfa Romeo, Bentley, and MINI. It is also featured on certain models from other brands such as some Porsche Macans, certain MG5s, and some older BMW E30 model. And Audi and BMW use a lot of them with the same 66.6 centre bore......but there is also offset to consider.

 

[Blobcat]

Also Mercedes are hubcentric, whereas many others use the bolts to centre the wheel.

 

[ALFAitalia]

Are there any wheels that are not hub centric these days?.....certainly not seen any (trailer wheel aside). Pretty dangerous not to have hub centric.....the hubs should be what takes the weight of the car.....not the bolts.....their sole job should be to clamp the wheels to the hub. That's why you should always use spigot rings if you use after market wheels with a bigger centre bore. Also ensure the wheels is running truly central to the hub.

Most caravan wheels are not hub centric.....its always amazed me that its not mandatory. You only have to see the amount of caravans written off due to wheel loss (usually the left side due to any slight movement of the wheels tends to unwind the bolts on that side.....and tighten them on the other)...to realise that it would be sensible.

Some older cars like old Rolls Royce and early Dodge Chargers with non hub centric wheels had left hand thread lugs on the nearside wheels to minimise the chances of that happening.

EDIT. Google says (yes I know) that all cars come from the factory hub centric.

"The transition from purely lug-centric designs to hub-centric ones for most mass-market vehicles became prominent roughly from the 1980s through the 1990s"

 

[EmilysDad]

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Most caravan wheels are not hub centric.....its always amazed me that its not mandatory. You only have to see the amount of caravans written off due to wheel loss (usually the left side due to any slight movement of the wheels tends to unwind the bolts on that side.....and tighten them on the other)...to realise that it would be sensible.

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The Caravan club always seem to be obsessed with making sure that wheel bolts are torqued up every other mile .... I tighten my caravan wheel up using my calibrated right arm & have yet a problem .... (fingers crossed
But as you say, they are NOT hub centric .... I do wonder if people don't allow the wheel to self centre as they tighten the bolts

 

[Blobcat]

The Caravan club always seem to be obsessed with making sure that wheel bolts are torqued up every other mile .... I tighten my caravan wheel up using my calibrated right arm & have yet a problem .... (fingers crossed
But as you say, they are NOT hub centric .... I do wonder if people don't allow the wheel to self centre as they tighten the bolts

Lots of boat trailers suffer catastrophic wheel loss - due to the warm grease being washed out of the hubs when launching the boat, dry bearings on the way home overheat and fail.

 

[ALFAitalia]

There is ALWAYS a torque wrench in the boot of my car.