Aftermarket wheels often lack cutouts for brake rotor retainer clips, which must be removed during installation or your wheel can come off. The speaker shows how to pry and snip them off, and warns shops and DIYers not to skip this step.
What's these little retainer clips on there for? They're designed to keep the brake rotor on there when it goes down the assembly line. Now, the thing is, this one here is getting some aftermarket wheels. So if you look at your factory wheels on the back, there's a cutout right here. What's that cutout for? Well, it goes over that retaining clip. So as you see, these wheels do not have a cutout. So if you leave those retainer clips on there without that cutout in the back of this aftermarket wheel, you're liable to have that wheel come off. So your best bet is to snatch these things off. So if you're doing aftermarket wheels, you always want to check for that. So some aftermarket wheels come with the cutout and some don't. Like this one here. So how do you take them off? So you take a little chisel, you bend it up a little bit. Then you take a little pair of snips or a pair of dikes and snatch that thing off of there. All right? Now, this one here had three of them on there. We got them all off. Now, shops should know this, but they still leave them on. We see it all the time. They come in here, they still got those retaining clips on there. So if you're not a shop and you take wheels off your truck and you see those clips on there that we just took off, and it doesn't have that cutout right here, take those clips off. If you don't, you're going to liable to have a wheel come off.
