The Camaro Club (UK)

Evening all

Had a day of it today, went to pick up some aftermarket wheels with SPINNYBITS for his '97 Firebird. Moons ago on my CAmaro I had some 18" BMW M Parallels that fitted fine, so I made sure the offset and PCD were correct on these before going to pick them up.

Wheels were as described by the seller, good condition and upon trying to fit, the "tunnel" (for want of a better phrase) where the nut descends (forgive terminology ) is really tight for the nut itself, let alone the socket to drive it tight.

Anyhoo, looks like we need a 17mm headed nut with the correct thread to have any chance of getting the nuts on and correctly torqued. Standard nuts are 19mm. Nuts fit fine on my aftermarket American Racing wheels and other random wheels I have in the garage (Holden OEM 5 spokes)

Can anyone recommend a solution? Happy to have some made to fit, but can anyone recommend anyone to do the work? Has anyone encountered this problem?

Strange as my BMW wheels were absolutely fine.

Thanks again, sorry for keep asking questions.

Ferdi

Thanks for the post fella I have found this place tonight.

http://www.mistertee.co.uk/6.html

Brilliant.

Give them a call and we'll have a drive down to Croydon.

Good stuff.

I know you van get thin wall sockets for this kind of thing.. All the BMW wheels I've had always seem to work with 19mm nuts, but it's often tight for the socket/wheel brace..]

Good luck with mistertee.

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