What is the wheel hub?
The wheel hub is a metal disc that is tightly secured to the axle and contains the wheel bearing as part of its connection to the axle. On the other side of the wheel hub, you will find a central lug nut in the very center with threaded rods sticking out typically in a five or six star pattern. These bolts or rods are what your rims sit on and what you attach your rim’s lug nuts to. Is a hub cap related to the wheel hub? Hub cap, is indeed, related to the wheel hub. This is an older term that described wheel assemblies before there were such things as after market rims. On older cars, the rims that connected to the wheel hub and held the wheel in place exposed the center lug nut and bolts of the outer wheel hub. To hide these parts for aesthetics, they came up with a cap usually containing the manufacturer’s logo that became known as the hub cap. What can go wrong with a wheel hub? The wheel hub is a solid steel or metal disc forged from one piece of metal. Its composition combined wit
