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Nice looking lug bolts.. .where to buy?

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Gangel Commited Dubber

64 posts · joined Oct 2010 ·

#821425
Hi pplz,

I need new lug bolts but i want some nice'ish ones that are chrome to match my rims.

Where in aus (or even perth) can i find a selection/where has everyone else got theirs from?

Is there a typical length that i should order for rims or is it just a matter of checking what i have?

Also;; same question for locking lug bolts!!

Glenn.

cheers for any help u can give 🙂

barls Administrator Causer of Chaos and Mayhem

9,476 posts · joined Jun 2004 ·

#821446
try your local tire place, they can generally order what you want.
“We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.” Bill Hicks
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Gangel Commited Dubber

64 posts · joined Oct 2010 ·

#821453
hmm ok sage advice!

What kinds do you guys have then...?

Just black?

barls Administrator Causer of Chaos and Mayhem

9,476 posts · joined Jun 2004 ·

#821456
mine are stock kombi ones and i changed to studs and nuts.
“We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.” Bill Hicks
the chaos project - click me

Gangel Commited Dubber

64 posts · joined Oct 2010 ·

#821504
ok thanks barls, ill have to look into it then 🙂

Joel Now containing 100\% E-Wang

9,368 posts · joined Feb 2006 ·

#821510
Having a brainfart at the moment but theres a model of calais or statesman that has neat plastic covers that clip over the wheel nuts that fit VW wheel nuts

Will probably come to me at 2am 🤪

Mums Peugeot has them too but there 17mm nuts

68AutoBug Beetle Restorer - Experience over 138\% - YIKES --

11,654 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#821527
barls wrote:try your local tire place, they can generally order what you want.
Hi
this is non VW... but My Wife's Suzuki swift chromed nuts had three crack while I was undoing them...
they were also going rusty...

One cracked bad enough that I had to have a bolt welded to it to get it off...

after checking out 4 tyre services... for replacements..
and no one had any.... at all??

I then checked on the internet and ebay...
and the only place that I could find that sold HIGH Tensile chromed nuts that I needed was in the USA....

I bought a pack of 5 to check them out...
then bought a pack of 20... not expensive either..

LEE

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When You do find some locally, make sure You wax them every few weeks to keep the rust away...
I have seen chromed VW studs on cars...
I'm sure You could get studs and buts....
- Helping keep Air Cooled VWs on the road - location: SCONE in the Upper Hunter Valley - Northern NSW 320 kms NNW of SYDNEY---

HappyDaze Superannuated

2,887 posts · joined Jun 2009 ·

#821534
Be careful using chrome studs. If they are not heat-treated IMMEDIATELY after chrome plating, they can suffer from hydrogen embrittlement - deadly👎👎👎
I'd rather wear a Beetle out by racing it than by polishing it!

ancientbugger Custom Title Time!

1,986 posts · joined Mar 2004 ·

#821546
My beetle I first owned was a Championship beetle and it came with silver plastic bolt covers like mentioned earlier and I believe CIP do them in black and silver.

POOR BUGGER Learner Dubber

10 posts · joined Jul 2009 ·

#821584
I have the black covers Joel mentioned they came off
A friends VN SS and they fit perfectly.
You might find some at a wreckers?

donn Wolfsburg Elder

3,515 posts · joined Nov 2005 ·

#821586
Just about all of the Generals cars have black plastic nut covers now methinks, i've got them on the wench and they came off my Crewman, just noticed today that one has gone walkies, not to worry as I've got spares. 🙄
I dream of a day when a chicken can cross a road without being asked for it's motive!

68AutoBug Beetle Restorer - Experience over 138\% - YIKES --

11,654 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#821627
ancientbugger wrote:My beetle I first owned was a Championship beetle and it came with silver plastic bolt covers like mentioned earlier and I believe CIP do them in black and silver.
where did you live then????

Mexican beetles had black ones I believe...

also Lemerertz wheels [on German beetles] used them...

LEE
- Helping keep Air Cooled VWs on the road - location: SCONE in the Upper Hunter Valley - Northern NSW 320 kms NNW of SYDNEY---

Joel Now containing 100\% E-Wang

9,368 posts · joined Feb 2006 ·

#821668
Champion would be US, each country had their own name for the 72 record breaking models.

They were just 15millionth commemorative here but Europe called them Marathon beetles.

vwo60 Veteran Volks Folk

2,036 posts · joined Feb 2007 ·

#822310
If you use a rattle gun on the chrome nuts the chrome will come off, i have two cars with chrome nuts on them for years with no issues