Lug nut weight differences
Pro
Joined: Jun 2004
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From: Detroit MI
Lets see, locking lug nuts are to prevent some one from stealing your wheels. PPL that steal wheels dont normally go to open and obvious places.
and ppl park their corvettes where? in the open obvious place, and in plain sight or in a lock garage at home. Not to mention it will take a low profile jack to get under a corvette.
So why do ppl use locking lug nuts ?
and ppl park their corvettes where? in the open obvious place, and in plain sight or in a lock garage at home. Not to mention it will take a low profile jack to get under a corvette.
So why do ppl use locking lug nuts ?
a pro can steal anything. dont think cause its in plain sight its safe.. even in a detached garage... they have more time to work they have cover from outside view...
Drifting
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 1,523
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From: Holly, Michigan
I usually buy 100 lug nuts , weigh them and sort them by weight.
I keep the lightest forty matched weight nuts for my track days, 20 go on the car for regular days, 20 are for shows (one always needs to have unmarked new looking nuts for shows) and I sell the remaining 20 as a matched weight set on eBay.
The premium I get for the "matched weight" set of "Corvette lug nuts" with the shipping and handling fees I can get away with usually means my 80 lug nuts end up being free.....
I keep the lightest forty matched weight nuts for my track days, 20 go on the car for regular days, 20 are for shows (one always needs to have unmarked new looking nuts for shows) and I sell the remaining 20 as a matched weight set on eBay.
The premium I get for the "matched weight" set of "Corvette lug nuts" with the shipping and handling fees I can get away with usually means my 80 lug nuts end up being free.....
Le Mans Master
Joined: Aug 2002
Posts: 8,222
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From: Norfolk VA
I usually buy 100 lug nuts , weigh them and sort them by weight.
I keep the lightest forty matched weight nuts for my track days, 20 go on the car for regular days, 20 are for shows (one always needs to have unmarked new looking nuts for shows) and I sell the remaining 20 as a matched weight set on eBay.
The premium I get for the "matched weight" set of "Corvette lug nuts" with the shipping and handling fees I can get away with usually means my 80 lug nuts end up being free.....
I keep the lightest forty matched weight nuts for my track days, 20 go on the car for regular days, 20 are for shows (one always needs to have unmarked new looking nuts for shows) and I sell the remaining 20 as a matched weight set on eBay.
The premium I get for the "matched weight" set of "Corvette lug nuts" with the shipping and handling fees I can get away with usually means my 80 lug nuts end up being free.....
the sad thing is you could probably make a lot of cash doing that. Just remember to include a reminder that the lugs should be replaced every year because the road grim will affects the weight of each one.
Race Director
Joined: Jan 2006
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From: Not on either liberal coast.
To those who don't feel that locking lug nuts are really necessary...
Do you leave your car and home doors unlocked because "If a thief wants in bad enough, they will get in."
Do you leave your car and home doors unlocked because "If a thief wants in bad enough, they will get in."
Race Director
Joined: Jan 2007
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From: Norman Oklahoma - The Only State in the Union with no Blue Counties!
I usually buy 100 lug nuts , weigh them and sort them by weight.
I keep the lightest forty matched weight nuts for my track days, 20 go on the car for regular days, 20 are for shows (one always needs to have unmarked new looking nuts for shows) and I sell the remaining 20 as a matched weight set on eBay.
The premium I get for the "matched weight" set of "Corvette lug nuts" with the shipping and handling fees I can get away with usually means my 80 lug nuts end up being free.....
I keep the lightest forty matched weight nuts for my track days, 20 go on the car for regular days, 20 are for shows (one always needs to have unmarked new looking nuts for shows) and I sell the remaining 20 as a matched weight set on eBay.
The premium I get for the "matched weight" set of "Corvette lug nuts" with the shipping and handling fees I can get away with usually means my 80 lug nuts end up being free.....
Don't forget to color code the threads so you can use the heavier lugs on the initial downstroke wheel rotation for quicker starts from the line! Worth at least .0000003 seconds at the track!
Pro
Joined: Jun 2004
Posts: 543
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From: Detroit MI
truth is now i do, i was parked out side a sporting event is a controled parking lot in detroit... and i had my car locked with nothing at all in it (Cause im in Detroit)... well after watching the lions get smashed i come to see they just broke out the pass window and took nothing cause nothing was in it... and since my ins. has a $500 dedct. i leave it unlocked since then. but nothing is ever in it.
