I ran a tire shop for almost 10 years and all OEM wheels are hub centric and most tire shops balance wheels on a balancer using a hub centric setup. I have never seen an aftermarket wheel that was hub centric without a ring. And when you try and balance the aftermarket wheel with its hub centric ring on a balancer setup for hub centric it almost never works perfect or repeatable.I had an 02 Superduty. And back in the day everyone claimed that aftermarket rims had to be hubcentric to properly fit the superduty. Is that not the case now?
Are the stock rims hubcentric?
Thanks
C
Tire balancer do have lug centric setups to do after market wheels and they balance the aftermarket wheels better but that requires you to get a technician who is not in a rush or is used to dealing with aftermarket wheels. Technician training is usually about a day long and they usually don't know much about cars to begin with or think they know everything at 18 which is worse. The length of retention is also fairly short so if you find one that is good they usually aren't around for more than a couple years.
Final note on tire and wheel choices is to remember that the stock tires are rated at a bit over 4k lbs so I would make sure to get tire and wheel combos that were equal or greater if you want to retain the load carrying ability of the truck. I see a lot of folks choosing combos that are 3500 lbs each and that reduces your bed weight by 1k or usually over 1/3 of total capacity. The tongue weight on a 6.7 is 2100 lbs. I am not smart enough to translate what a 1k loss in tire capacity means to the reduction of tongue weight capacity from different tire choices but it doesn't seem wise.
