Cheap Wheel Ideas
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Cheap Wheel Ideas
Whats up everyone i have a 2002 ranger 2.3l XLT i have the stock wheels on the truck and want to get a different look to my rims and eventually get Wrangler's or KM2's i want to black out the wheel but leave the center chrome they are the factory 7 spoke or whatever you call them wheels and its like they have this chrome faceplate on them my buddy calls them imposters and i just waned to know if and how i can remove the faceplate off the wheel (btw the weights for balancing the wheel are on the outside of the faceplate so i would have to remove them too if i took the cover off)
https://www.ranger-forums.com/forum2...239-01-01.html
https://www.ranger-forums.com/forum2...239-01-01.html
Last edited by OneTireFire; 01-26-2010 at 08:30 AM.
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I do have pics but i will have to wait until im home until i can post them the weight is on the outside and i know that the covers can comeoff because when i put my finger on them i can feel the back of the wheel there is a lip between each spoke and i can move it a tiny bit like it should just pop off but it wolnt
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Do you mean the center cap? The end piece for the jack has a rubber piece at the end. Stick that into the slot and either push down or up, cant really remember. Either that or use a flat head.
Well your first post wasn't really the "warm" welcoming for his first post here lol.
Well your first post wasn't really the "warm" welcoming for his first post here lol.
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honestly im not sure what i should put on there but i have seen a ranger around town with nitto grapplers and i thought the guy had a 6 but i asked him and he had a 4 so i hoped i could do something similar
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[QUOTE=atrocity;1582289]Do you mean the center cap? The end piece for the jack has a rubber piece at the end. Stick that into the slot and either push down or up, cant really remember. Either that or use a flat head.
No im talking about the faceplate on the wheel i have no idea how else to explain it ill post pics and hopefully that will clarify it for ya'll
No im talking about the faceplate on the wheel i have no idea how else to explain it ill post pics and hopefully that will clarify it for ya'll
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Whats up everyone i have a 2002 ranger 2.3l XLT i have the stock wheels on the truck and want to get a different look to my rims and eventually get Wrangler's or KM2's i want to black out the wheel but leave the center chrome they are the factory 7 spoke or whatever you call them wheels and its like they have this chrome faceplate on them my buddy calls them imposters and i just waned to know if and how i can remove the faceplate off the wheel (btw the weights for balancing the wheel are on the outside of the faceplate so i would have to remove them too if i took the cover off)
https://www.ranger-forums.com/forum2...239-01-01.html
https://www.ranger-forums.com/forum2...239-01-01.html
It sounded like you have those chrome "skins", but when you said that the wheel weights were on the skins themselves, it didn't sound right (unless some hack at the tire shop put them on wrong).
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225's are skinny. a 245ish width tire will be around a 10.5 inch. (roughly)
Are you sure your wheels have the chrome skins on there? From your pic they look like the real chrome ones. My 04 had the skins on there and i remember them being less 'defined' than the ones in your pic. Theres no way a wheel weight would attach to them either. They would have to be on the wheen when he was mounting them and balancing the tires and i doubt he could have gotten the tire on there without snapping the chrome falsies. (with the big spades and pry bars they use and all..)
Here was my 04 with the falsies. They dont look as defined around the lip of the rim as yours do. (note the giant piece missing out of it from curb rash... they arent very durable)
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im like 90% sure they are the false ones ill take the wheel off this weekend and take defined pics then get ya'lls opinions on them i dont really like them either cuz when i wash the truck a bunch of sand and crap comes out of there so i know its not just rim there cuz i can kinda peel it away from the wheel i can feel where metal ends and plastic takes over i just wanted to kno if i could remove them and how