Front Hub Dust Cap? RESOLVED

glwood54 · Feb 26, 2024

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I had a similar situation with my '23 Pro, which came with the older SEMA style wheels. I ordered a set of the new TRD wheels (from a Toyota dealership) to mount my winter tires on back in December. Installer said the rears fit fine, but fronts wouldn't sit flush on the hub due to the dust cap. He quickly showed me it wobbling a bit, so I said to put the winter set in the back and put the other set back on. Took them home and mounted everything myself with no issues. It seemed to be simply an issue of not actually getting the new wheel centered onto the hub to push it on. If you try to mount it up and have it a little off-center, it'll catch on the dust cap lip and rock back and forth as if it won't seat. I just had to give it a little extra lift to get it over the dust cap lip and then it centered right up and sat flush on the hub. No issues whatsoever since then.
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How can tire installers not know that??

laxman09 · Feb 26, 2024

glwood54 said: ↑

How can tire installers not know that??
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Probably bc drugs and alcohol

Project Pat · May 27, 2024

Chiming in to share my experience with this same issue - 2023 ORP.

Both front dust caps were not seated all the way - left was out by ~3 mm, right was out by ~1 mm

Took a heavy mallet + 2x4 & seated them all the way

Initial wheel bolt-down still had a gap between hub & wheel of ~0.5 mm roughly between the 12 o'clock & 5 o'clock positions, the rest was flush

Torquing them down to spec seated it flush all the way around with no drama

Zero issues since

Grandpawmoses · May 27, 2024

Glad it all worked out for you OP. It's that kind of thing that drives you nuts.

JChiz · May 27, 2024

I agree that it's too bad you had to go throught this with supposed "professionals". However this is good infformation for future owners! Thanks for detailing the problem and solution.

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