wheel nuts

[DavidL]

Lovely refurbed wheels just collected from Lepsons soon to be fitted. But the wheel nuts are now a bit old so I wondered just what people have done.
New wheels nuts from various places
Resprayed their own
Wheel nut caps that seem very popular all over a well known auction site
Will nuts from anything else fit - full new sets are quite pricey.
Something else?

Oh and what should I put on my new wheels to protect them a bit?

 

[Frenchy]

Use a good quality wax on the wheels (if they are painted) i have sprayed my wheel nuts satin black if good and replaced if bad, they used to be 2 quid a piece at the dealers now well over 4, Eurocarparts are cheapest at the moment. Buy a soft socket to save rounding them off, and DO NOT let the rivvets at quick fit and the like near them with a windy gun, use a torque wrench and torque them up using a soft socket, Frazerpart or a Snap On dealer can sell you one or have a gander on e bay.

 

[CarreraRSR]

Use some Autoglym Super Resin Polish, a sealer like Carlack 68 and some tough long lasting wax on them like Collinite Concours d'Elegance to keep them fresh for as long as possible. (Lepsons powdercoat not paint) I replaced all my nuts for new ones for circa £60 from a Porsche re seller on ebay. Can't remember which one. My view was spending near £300 on re freshed wheels and centre cap required the best quality nuts to finish off. Lots of cash by really worth it. +1 one the tyre fitters. I'd rather remove the wheel myself than let them ruin the nuts/wheel.

 

[Lowtimer]

Completely agree with RSR. Worth getting new ones every 20 years or so... and always take the wheels off, and put them back, yourself rather than have some monkey at a general purposes tyre fitter do it. If you have a proper relationship with a sensible tyre fitter who is prepared to use a correctly adjusted torque wrench to do the wheel fitting, and let you stand there watching in the tyre bay, then fair enough, but if it's one of those places where they insist you you stand in a separate room somewhere listening to the whizz and rattle of air wrenches (which always reminds me of being in the dentist's waiting room as a kid), do it yourself.

 

[DavidL]

RSR is concours d'elegance the same as marque d'elegance - I can find the latter but not the former in exact words? Ok you've persuaded me - new wheel nuts. Interestingly last time I went to a fast fit place to get the front wheels balanced the fitter was hefting his whizzy gun when his manager came almost running over to say no you can't use that they're titanium (ok they're not but) and made him do it by hand on and off. So credit where its due. Mind you they couldn't run a business to save their life - whole, forecourt closed to accept a delivery of new tyres - 5 people waiting!!(4 tyres each - you do the maths!) and no hurry to get to them. Made me wince it did. Equally when I had my old rangies wheels balanced they did take the nuts off with a gun but when they went back on they gun slipped (clutch not by accident) and then they went at them with a torque wrench and they definitely moved quite noticeably before it clicked off. Can you adjust the torque of an impact driver or am I being generous? Hopefully I'll get chance to fit them all and clean the car properly and then I'll post some pics - its starting to look quite nice!

 

[djone101]

My Lux had bad front wheel balance issues which were 90% cured by replacing some nasty steel nuts with original Porsche alloy ones, so make sure you get alloy nuts (and I agree with all of the above too)

 

[DavidL]

Frenchy, ECP aren't showing nuts as an option online - do you know they have them?

 

[CarreraRSR]

ORIGINAL: DavidL RSR is concours d'elegance the same as marque d'elegance - I can find the latter but not the former in exact words?

Yep, my error in naming. Marque d'elegance. Came out well in a detailing world 6 month wax test beating many waxes that cost far more £££'s. Will be rewaxing my wheels soon ready for Summer. Unfortunately waiting for the caps to arrive when I took the pic. Fresh powdercoat, polished, sealed and waxed.

 

[Northern924]

Please never put steel nuts on alloys [&:] They'll eventually eat through the wheel!! I just cleaned up mine and resprayed with satin black as well, although quite pointless at the minute as the wheels need a refurb lol

 

[Hilux]

Nearly 100% of production cars have steel nuts or bolts on ally wheels You may be talking about electrolytic action but a smear of copper grease is all you need. Where you do get electrolytic action is between the wheel hub face and the hub - again use copper grease and its no issue at all If your ally nuts are grey and starting to powder then change them asap.

 

[Frenchy]

ECP were doing them, but not had a look at their website for a while ?