I was visiting with a neighbor whose daughter is visiting from a college up North in the Snow Belt… The daughter’s Toyota Camry had snow tires mounted on the front on steel rims. She said she bought the snow ties and wheel from a local garage near her campus…
The garage had used the same lug nuts that fitted the allow wheel to mount the steel wheel… They are not the same design…
The Toyota lug nuts do not have the same seat type… Both Front wheels were somewhat loose and the Lug Nuts for the Alloy Wheels have “shoulders” that are too small for the Steel Wheels and were eating their way through…
My neighbor immediately went to an auto parts store and replaced the lug nuts… I advised him to take the car in and have the steel wheels inspected, the Lug Holes may be too wallowed out to be safe…
Let this be a warning to others… I honestly never thought about this previously, as I do not swap out Snow Tires and Wheels here in Virginia…
For crying out loud. That is the same thing as putting new tires only on the front of a vehicle. She either needs rear tires to match or just put the other tires back on . The chance of the rear breaking loose and having very little control of the vehicle is very high.
For crying out loud BoBo, take a Chill Pill… I did not send my neighbor’s daughter out to risk her life and limb with these mismatched tires. I merely observed the wrong use of the Lug Nuts from the original Alloy Wheels… I advised my neighbor to have the wheels inspected by the dealer and I am sure they will advise him on the solution.
If you read my whole posting before firing off that flaming post, you would have noticed that I wrote, “I honestly never thought about this previously, as I do not swap out Snow Tires and Wheels here in Virginia…”
But in spite of your intent to flame me I have done some research on this and I will pass on the information you probably intended to impart…
