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Vehicle & Technical => Discovery => Topic started by: Yoshi on August 25, 2009, 18:19:51

Title: Wheel nuts
Post by: Yoshi on August 25, 2009, 18:19:51

Can alloy wheel nuts be used safely on the road with modular steel wheels??

This is on a disco 300tdi.

Title: Re: Wheel nuts
Post by: Frankie-Boy on August 25, 2009, 18:29:39

Nah, get the correct ones you muppet.  :D

Title: Re: Wheel nuts
Post by: hairyasswelder on August 25, 2009, 19:19:01

Quote from: Frankie-Boy on August 25, 2009, 18:29:39

Nah, get the correct ones you muppet.  :D

Will second that.... the profile of the taper is wrong

Title: Re: Wheel nuts
Post by: Yoshi on August 25, 2009, 19:27:05

See Frank, told yer! lol

Title: Re: Wheel nuts
Post by: muddyjames on August 25, 2009, 20:46:59

I did for about 3 years.

I do however have a full set of steel wheel nuts for a 300tdi here too!  :lol:

Title: Re: Wheel nuts
Post by: Yoshi on August 25, 2009, 21:05:25

LOL not much good there james!!!

Although if you want to send them to a field somewhere in northants then i might be interested lmao

Title: Re: Wheel nuts
Post by: LiftedDisco on August 27, 2009, 13:58:30

What do you want... full set?

Are you going to the MC meet tonight... being as how you are in Billing already!

If so, I have a bag full of nuts ( :oops: ) and am sure that we can gather together a set

PM me or put a message on here - I'll check later

Rob

Title: Re: Wheel nuts
Post by: Frankie-Boy on August 27, 2009, 15:02:20

Yes Rob,

He will be at the meet tonight, and thanks for finding some nuts for him.  :D ;)

Title: Re: Wheel nuts
Post by: Yoshi on August 27, 2009, 15:21:12

Hi Rob!

Some nuts would be awesome thanks! lol

And yes, should be at the meet tonight, just got to wait for the missus to get here first, then we will be down!

Title: Re: Wheel nuts
Post by: Range Rover Blues on August 29, 2009, 23:05:43

Yes you can, well you can use the OEM Disco steel wheels with ally nuts at least.  The alloy nuts have a taper on them so that a steel wheel could be used as a spare, from the 300 series (soft dash) onwards RRC had a steel spare as a cost-saving measure and I think the disco dod too, not sure whether 200 Discos had a steel or alloy spare.

Title: Re: Wheel nuts
Post by: Yoshi on August 30, 2009, 09:40:48

It was ok, i bought a set from the fella i got the wheels off, so have proper steel wheels!

Title: Re: Wheel nuts
Post by: Range Rover Blues on August 30, 2009, 23:56:57

I'd imagine they look a whole lot better :)

Title: Re: Wheel nuts
Post by: Yoshi on September 01, 2009, 16:01:12

I prefer the alloys personally as they are the boost deep dish jobbies!

However, the tyres do the job lol