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Old 08-19-2013, 07:37 AM   #12
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The irony of this is that Porsche's center locking wheels have been widely panned as an unnecessarily expensive and cumbersome invention. They require a maintenance schedule that is ridiculous and have left some track guys up in the trees from wheels falling off. Removing them requires special tools and procedures for exactly what benefit no one knows. Some even go through the huge expense of converting their $100K cars back to the old five lug.

So to accuse this $300 mod of being unnecessary is funny. I appreciate the handywork by this Asian factory to make a good looking block of industrial design. But at the end of the day if you run into a performance driving-oriented onlooker, it's a bit of belts and suspenders situation.
You'd have to figure out a way of masking the lug holes completely, which I'm fairly certain I've seeen. The whole lug area was cap mated to the CL center cap. Kind of cool I thought.
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