alcazar

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Any good? Or just a bit "Halfords"?

I've seen sets on e-bay at £25 or so.........

dunx

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IMHO

NO !

1. I got black ones that have "cooked" to a nice anthracite colour now....
2. Anodising is easily marked....
3. I got some "air" off a bump at Blyton and the car sounded like I'd ripped a drive shaft out, it turned out that the nearside front wheel nuts had loosened themselves.....

HTH

dunx

Aztec Performance Ltd

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Either fit some quality ones or don't bother imho.

Godspeed Brakes

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Its not something that I would ever fit onto my own cars , seen too many damaged ones on cars here where people have put them on not quite right , and then force them on taking most of the thread out , but still drive around with them fitted !!
They can damage too easy for my liking , I would stick to the standard steel ones

alcazar

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Thanks for that. I have to say I'm more than a little sceptical of using alloy for something that is such a high-torque aplication, and which takes so much stress.

I think I'll stick to polishing my chrome ones

scoobyhurky

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i was thinking of getting these

Internal Drive Light Weight Racing Wheel Nut P1.25 BLUE on eBay (end time 14-Feb-10 14:30:00 GMT)

or do you think they are a

alcazar

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I think I probably wouldn't, now, for the reasons given above.
I like the ones you showed, which are marked, "Titanium Gold Finish" and are blue

flat4phil

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I used to have ali wheel nuts - utter toilet, waste of money and dangerous, as the threads are not hard enough to take any torque. Changed to these fellas, marvellous!
So small, light, and robust; Project Mu we love you long time.

phil739

iTrader: (30)

been there worn the t-shirt wasted 60quid plus

dont do it

now have black steel ones

Tom87

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I bought some D1-Spec forged aluminium nuts off eBay for around 40 quid and they're great, have no complaints whatsoever. I only really bought them cos I was sick of standard nuts or "chrome plated" nuts rusting on me...

D1CCY

Agree with Ian. I had a set for a while and the threads kept going tight due to dirt/minor damage and I didn't like this at all. Just use big coned steel ones from PRI racing item D2 as I recall.

MaDaSS

Do the Kei racing nuts come under this as well? Are they not really any good?

Granby

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Where did you get the black steel ones from please

Darc174

iTrader: (13)

same

rossi_p

iTrader: (26)

They're the same as most things...

Buy decent ones, fit them properly and no problem.

Remember, wheel nuts only need to be tightened up to 65 lb/ft. Copper grease the threads, check torque settings now and again.

alcazar

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Does anyone make stainless ones? Or wouldn't they be able to stand the torque?

172sport

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Light weight steel ones here, so light I thought they where alloy........

Ill post a piccy later.

JonMc

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I tried an ebay £25 set and they snapped, waste of money.

I now have some lightweight steel ones with a titanium coating for a bit of blingness, tad heavier, but look the nuts and seem to be much stronger

JonMc

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Check out here for some pics of mine, can do photobucket in work so no additional ones yet

https://www.scoobynet.com/members-ga...-new-year.html