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Re: wheel nuts
« Reply #20 on: 14 April 2013, 21:06 »
Couldn't he just buy a f*cking wheel nut..i mean.....really?....... :huh:

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Re: wheel nuts
« Reply #21 on: 14 April 2013, 21:14 »
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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Re: wheel nuts
« Reply #22 on: 14 April 2013, 21:20 »
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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Re: wheel nuts
« Reply #23 on: 14 April 2013, 21:46 »
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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Re: wheel nuts
« Reply #24 on: 14 April 2013, 21:56 »
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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Re: wheel nuts
« Reply #25 on: 14 April 2013, 23:47 »
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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Re: wheel nuts
« Reply #26 on: 15 April 2013, 13:14 »
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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Re: wheel nuts
« Reply #27 on: 15 April 2013, 13:36 »
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.

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