DrSimon
New member
Hi all,
As an owner of a 997.2 turbo I must apologise for jumping onto the 991 board. This invasion will hopefully become clear in a second.
I've just bought my turbo, which has the 19 inch RS central lock wheels. As more 991 cars are now being fitted with these I thought this forum area might be a better place to seek advice. Unfortunately, the central lock nuts have all corroded, possibly due to corrosive wheel cleaning fluid in the past. I've been told by Porsche East London that it will cost over £1k to replace these, which seems a ludicrous amount of money. I'm guessing I'm not the only one to experience this problem. I'm wondering if it's possible to get the nuts refurbished, by a wheel refurbisher, like Lepsons for example. However, due to the massive amount of torque required to secure the wheels I'm thinking that any refinishing would simply be removed when I have new tyres fitted. My wheel nuts are the bare metal variety, not the black ones I've seen.
Any thoughts on how to get them looking new again?
simon
As an owner of a 997.2 turbo I must apologise for jumping onto the 991 board. This invasion will hopefully become clear in a second.
I've just bought my turbo, which has the 19 inch RS central lock wheels. As more 991 cars are now being fitted with these I thought this forum area might be a better place to seek advice. Unfortunately, the central lock nuts have all corroded, possibly due to corrosive wheel cleaning fluid in the past. I've been told by Porsche East London that it will cost over £1k to replace these, which seems a ludicrous amount of money. I'm guessing I'm not the only one to experience this problem. I'm wondering if it's possible to get the nuts refurbished, by a wheel refurbisher, like Lepsons for example. However, due to the massive amount of torque required to secure the wheels I'm thinking that any refinishing would simply be removed when I have new tyres fitted. My wheel nuts are the bare metal variety, not the black ones I've seen.
Any thoughts on how to get them looking new again?
simon