HUB CENTRIC RING 73 OUT/56 IN HR735615

Part that is comming with my wheels. Duno what it is.

I have Konig Rewinds comming and falken 512 tires on them.

 

It clips into the center bore of the wheel, to make it fit snugly with the hub on the Mini.

 

Why, it's a HUB CENTRIC RING! (probably 4 of them).
The inner diameter is 56 mm which fits snugly to the MINI hub, and the
outer diameter is 73 mm which fits snugly to the wheel.
This allows wheel manufacturers to make one wheel that fits a number of
different cars (most different makes have a different hub diameter)
with the same bolt pattern and keeps the wheel nicely
aligned to the hub, and supports most of the load, instead of relying on the
lug bolts to do that.

 

I may be wrong, but...

It could be the ring that is installed on the inside of the rim, where it mounts over the hub. This ring is what makes the rim hub-centric for your MINI.

Different cars have different size hubs, so sometimes wheel manufaturers make one-size-fits-all (in a manner of speaking) wheels, and then the ring gets installed into the wheels when you order the wheels for a MINI (you might have seen a different part number if you ordered the rims for a Honda or Nissan, etc).

EDIT: Dang... a minute too late. Somebody always says it better and faster.

 

hm thanx guys! that makes perfect sense. I hope the mini has a 56 mm hub!

Anyone know about wheel locks? I was told some of them are dangerous and that some of them are great and allow for the full turns before stopping.

 

56.1mm to be exact...

 

I believe our MINI's have the same center bore as the Miata. If you bought your wheel/tire package from Goodwin racing that's what you've got. It should be fine.

 

Some dood in back of an industrial area sold them to me. Factory direct from konig! (actually factory direct as I was next to the their wearhouse when I bought them)