Light weight Lug nuts

[NSXDreamer2]

Hi all, I had used the lug nuts for a while, someone tried to tell me take those off and replace it with the more conventional Chrome lug nuts... Reason is that it might be as though as they sound...

I got those Lug nuts for $60. I believed the retail is around 75-80. They called it 'forged aluminum' lug nuts. and there's a warning about not to use any air tools on them...

Does anybody have any idea of how tough they are??

 

[Briank]

Aluminum lug nuts are not going to be as strong as steel and if you crank then real tight they will strip which I guess is better then trashing your studs. You can bet if your average tire jockey hits them with his air gun they will be toast. Had my car to the Acura dealer to get checked out after I bought it and they had the wheels off. When I went to take the wheels off a couple of months later the lugs were unbelievably tight. So much for using a torque wrench . I am sure they would have striped one or more of the lugs if they had been Aluminum.
Also Aluminum likes to gall and when in contact with a dissimilar metal like steel a galvanic corrosion takes place causing more problems. On the X all the steel fasteners that go into Aluminum have a special coating on then to prevent corrosion.

I would not run Aluminum lug nuts on my car except to park it in the garage.

 

[nsxtasy]

Whatever kind of lug nuts you get, make sure you get a seating surface that matches that of the wheels.

Virtually all stock Honda/Acura wheels have a spherical-shaped ("acorn") seating surfaces, as do the stock lug nuts.

Virtually all aftermarket wheels have a tapered-shaped ("conical") seating surfaces, as do aftermarket lug nuts.

You need to have lug nuts with seating surfaces that match those of the wheels to maximize the area where they meet.