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Old Apr 8, 2012 | 11:18 PM
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Can't balance my tires properly...

Heres my problem, I bought these pretty nice wheels not too long ago on ebay and the inside of the rim wouldnt allow me to install them unless I used an adapter to push them out 1 1/4". Even after installing them with the adapters, I couldn't mount them flush against the truck because the studs stuck out past the adapters. My local wheel place offered to drill holes where the factory studs made contact. I did this and now they don't balance without requiring a lot of weights. The weights stack so much that they just fall off. What I mean about the inside of the wheel is that the inside is too small and hits the calipers.

What should I do?

The wheels are 16x10 wrapped in 285/75/16.
 
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Old Apr 8, 2012 | 11:39 PM
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Get new wheels that were meant for your truck..
 
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Old Apr 8, 2012 | 11:43 PM
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Old Apr 8, 2012 | 11:47 PM
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Yeah I'd put em back on e-bay amd get the right wheels
 
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Old Apr 9, 2012 | 06:07 AM
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Yea, I wouldn't mess with that. Sounds like they need to go to the scrap yard as they might have been torqued against the caliper, - just once is all it takes. The rim(s) is/are bent now,- I wouldn't want to cause grief for another if there's no correcting them. Sucks, but do the right thing.
 
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Old Apr 9, 2012 | 07:22 AM
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Yea, I wouldn't mess with that. Sounds like they need to go to the scrap yard as they might have been torqued against the caliper, - just once is all it takes. The rim(s) is/are bent now,- I wouldn't want to cause grief for another if there's no correcting them. Sucks, but do the right thing.
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Old Apr 9, 2012 | 01:16 PM
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Yeah very true... So sad because yet are nice wheels. I'll try and recycle them to get some $$$.
 
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