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Model specific boards => Golf mk3 => Topic started by: smithyvr6 on 12 April 2013, 19:05
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Bit random but is it safe to use just 4 nuts on one of my wheels on a gti?i didn't think it would be a problem???
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No, otherwise VW would've cut costs by missing a bolt out :whistle:
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Nope not safe, 5 are used for a reason.
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Should only do that if you push it around in a big garage say. Driving is a bad idea.
But if I had to drive somewhere to buy some new ones then I would do it, but carefully. Don't advise you to though.
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Bit random but is it safe to use just 4 nuts on one of my wheels on a gti?i didn't think it would be a problem???
Where do these people come from??.... :rolleyes:
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Bit random but is it safe to use just 4 nuts on one of my wheels on a gti?i didn't think it would be a problem???
Where do these people come from??.... :rolleyes:
I was just asking as I have to make a 5-10 minute trip to the garage..i didn't say I was off to do 15 laps of the ring!
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You would pretty much be driving there with no insurance if u had a accident they would throw the claim out the window if they know its only got 4 wheel nuts u see idiots buy 5 stud alloy wheel and only have 4 stud hub i wouldnt risk it mate driving with a missing wheel nut
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Bit random but is it safe to use just 4 nuts on one of my wheels on a gti?i didn't think it would be a problem???
Where do these people come from??.... :rolleyes:
I was just asking as I have to make a 5-10 minute trip to the garage..i didn't say I was off to do 15 laps of the ring!
I strongly advise you not to do that. But I would do that drive with 4 bolts.
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Bit random but is it safe to use just 4 nuts on one of my wheels on a gti?i didn't think it would be a problem???
Where do these people come from??.... :rolleyes:
Mainly the Mk3 Section :grin:
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Bit random but is it safe to use just 4 nuts on one of my wheels on a gti?i didn't think it would be a problem???
Where do these people come from??.... :rolleyes:
Mainly the Mk3 Section :grin:
:tongue: :grin: :grin:
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Bit random but is it safe to use just 4 nuts on one of my wheels on a gti?i didn't think it would be a problem???
Where do these people come from??.... :rolleyes:
Mainly the Mk3 Section :grin:
:tongue: :grin: :grin:
And you downgraded here :shocked: :lipsrsealed: :whistle:
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Bit random but is it safe to use just 4 nuts on one of my wheels on a gti?i didn't think it would be a problem???
Where do these people come from??.... :rolleyes:
Mainly the Mk3 Section :grin:
Touche.... :grin:
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Bit random but is it safe to use just 4 nuts on one of my wheels on a gti?i didn't think it would be a problem???
Where do these people come from??.... :rolleyes:
Mainly the Mk3 Section :grin:
Touche.... :grin:
:afro:
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Bit random but is it safe to use just 4 nuts on one of my wheels on a gti?i didn't think it would be a problem???
Where do these people come from??.... :rolleyes:
Mainly the Mk3 Section :grin:
:tongue: :grin: :grin:
And you downgraded here :shocked: :lipsrsealed: :whistle:
:grin: true,but i got myself back with a golf :grin: :wink:
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Come on in buddy..the water's warm where we go boating...... :grin:
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Come on in buddy..the water's warm where we go boating...... :grin:
Cheers bud :afro:
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u see idiots buy 5 stud alloy wheel and only have 4 stud hub i wouldnt risk it mate driving with a missing wheel nut
Errrr.... How in the hell did you work that out... Even if these wheels and hubs had 4x100 & 5x100 pcd's only one bolt hole would line up... Thus meaning 4 missing....
Gotta love Internet geometry... Pmfsl
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I have seen it on a car
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I have seen it on a car
Doesn't mean its a good idea...
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Well the only possible way that i can think of at the moment is if you fit 5x120 wheels to 4x100 hub using and adapter, because of the alignment one bolt will have to be left out, this meaning 3 bolts into the 4x100 hub... But then you would still have 5 bolts from wheel into the adapter and 3 from the adapter to the hub...
geometrically it's not physically possible to do it with the afore mentioned pcd's....... Nor any that I am familiar with.... Yup... I like wheels.. Lmao
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Couldn't he just buy a f*cking wheel nut..i mean.....really?....... :huh:
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Couldn't he just buy a f*cking wheel nut..i mean.....really?....... :huh:
lol i suppose this thread is getting a bit long for just a wheel nut :shocked:
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Lmao I thort the op already had from a post earlier I was just intreaged by that particular comment as im unfamiliar with a pcd in which 5 bolts will fit a 4 bolt hub simply leaving out 1 bolt... It just dont stack up.. Ive even used adapters in which it requires an offset head bolt to get the 5th in, but without these the other 4 won't line up at all... Thread hijack lmao sorry...
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Well the only possible way that i can think of at the moment is if you fit 5x120 wheels to 4x100 hub using and adapter, because of the alignment one bolt will have to be left out, this meaning 3 bolts into the 4x100 hub... But then you would still have 5 bolts from wheel into the adapter and 3 from the adapter to the hub...
geometrically it's not physically possible to do it with the afore mentioned pcd's....... Nor any that I am familiar with.... Yup... I like wheels.. Lmao
That still wouldn't work......
The adaptor would still have 4 bolts into the hub.....
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Well the only possible way that i can think of at the moment is if you fit 5x120 wheels to 4x100 hub using and adapter, because of the alignment one bolt will have to be left out, this meaning 3 bolts into the 4x100 hub... But then you would still have 5 bolts from wheel into the adapter and 3 from the adapter to the hub...
geometrically it's not physically possible to do it with the afore mentioned pcd's....... Nor any that I am familiar with.... Yup... I like wheels.. Lmao
That still wouldn't work......
The adaptor would still have 4 bolts into the hub.....
Sold those exact adapter a few months before Xmas dude, it's exactly how it worked :wink:
Thy we're quite old an I never felt comfortable running them, hence they landed themselves on a shelf, not long ago some clever sod came up with the offset head that now does away with this problem... I'm scouring my of for a pic, not big on pictures an stuff lol but I will find one somewhere
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Well the only possible way that i can think of at the moment is if you fit 5x120 wheels to 4x100 hub using and adapter, because of the alignment one bolt will have to be left out, this meaning 3 bolts into the 4x100 hub... But then you would still have 5 bolts from wheel into the adapter and 3 from the adapter to the hub...
geometrically it's not physically possible to do it with the afore mentioned pcd's....... Nor any that I am familiar with.... Yup... I like wheels.. Lmao
That still wouldn't work......
The adaptor would still have 4 bolts into the hub.....
Sold those exact adapter a few months before Xmas dude, it's exactly how it worked :wink:
Thy we're quite old an I never felt comfortable running them, hence they landed themselves on a shelf, not long ago some clever sod came up with the offset head that now does away with this problem... I'm scouring my of for a pic, not big on pictures an stuff lol but I will find one somewhere
I'd be interested to see it mate. All the ones I've seen has the thread in the head of a cylinder block itself.
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Yeah mate those are the newer style ones, I had the wheel drilled in the end as I was so unhappy about the safety of em,
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I can kinda see what you mean but for an adapter to only be able to have 3 bolts is outrageous!
I'd definitely not recommend but I'd definitely do it 10 mins to a garage as Tweed says.
Let's not get into 2 bolts on 4x100 :lipsrsealed:
Also done 4 on each wheel when picking up a car who's wheel had fallen off due to a tyre place not tightening lugs. Took one out of each other wheel. 3 on one wheel and 4 on the other 3.
Not an issue. But as said there is a reason for having 5 and the bolt heads and the wheel where the bolt heads meet get extra wear and oval when say 2 or 3 are fitted.