Hub centric and offset questions, are they an issue? Options

[SiKBOY]

Its time for me to get a new set of wheels, mainly because mine have dents in them I've already had them repaired once before.
I am looking into getting a set that will actually fit my car and not too concerned about looks. I know that most people that get wheels dont care about if they are HUB centric and they dont get the correct/same offset as the originals but I want to know if it affects the handling of the car or not or if you can get some kind of adapter to make aftermarket wheels to be hubcentric. I know you can get spacers to make negative offset wheels to come out more but I heard that spacers arnt recommended.

Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks

[Zephyr]

Dude!

We all need to do some looking into this hub size issue. I've put two sets of wheels on my 96 and both had issues with the hub not fitting properly. Three or four different hub centric rings and centric lug nuts didn't fix the problem. I called Toyota and asked about hub sizes on the different generation cars and they are all different. One set of wheels worked on my 91 but couldn't center up on my 96.

If the hubs don't center up, at speeds over 45 or 50 mph, the steering wheel starts to vibrate horribly as does the car. There's not really a handling issue to deal with, as it will still steer and corner properly, but it does feel like the car is about to explode as you're riding down the road.

The funny thing about the hub issue is the shake will be there one minute and not the next. For just a little while the wheels seem to be centered up and they ride smooth, but you take a turn or make a lane change and they move a little bit, and just that little bit at 70 miles an hour is enough to shake the snot out of you as you drive down the highway.

I say all of this from experience. I've spent the last two months spending almost all of my time away from work in tire shops and the Toyota service center waiting room trying to figure out what that horrible vibration in my steering wheel is. Four shops plus Toyota say it's the wheels not centering up. I put the factory wheels back on and the car is smooth and perfect, except for the appearance...

Why do car manufacturer put such ugly ass wheels on their cars? Mine is doomed to have the factory wheels unless we can figure out just what rims work on our cars.

Maybe we can start a thread asking what rims people have that DON'T have the vibration issue and select our wheels from that group.