Wheel Spacers And Bolts??

[Duncan Mowlem]

Hi All,

i have ordered 20mm for rears and possibly going to order 10mm for the front to be fitted with JBW steel wheels,

What new bolts doe i need to order as i think the ones coming with my rear spacers are to fit alloy wheels...?

thanks in advance...

dunc

 

[Skyliner33]

Alloys and steel wheels use the same bolts.

 

[Duncan Mowlem]

thanks...

 

[Grim Reaper]

Unless your alloys are not VW in which case you may need different ones.
It depends on the shape of the seating area.
Could be conical or rounded or flat.
VW steel wheels have a rounded (radius) seat.

 

[Skyliner33]

Correct, I assumed he had OEM wheels. My mistake.

 

[Grim Reaper]

Quoting a post of mine from an older thread..
You need to look at the shape of the seating surface for the bolts on the wheels you have and the wheels you are getting.
I changed from alloys to steels last month and the alloys needed conical seat bolts while the steels had radius (rounded) seat bolts. Range Rover wheel seats are different again, they have a sleeve with a flat face.
You also need to consider the thickness of the centre part of the wheel, alloy's generally have thicker castings so the bolts need to be longer to allow the bolt threads to get enough distance to go through the brake disc thickness and into the threaded part of the hub on the van.
Changing from alloys to steels, even if the shape of the seat is the same, if you use the bolts off the alloys, you may find that they are so long they come out of the back of the hub and catch something behind them (or fail to get all the way through the hub because the threads stop short of the back face and never tighten the wheel to the disc face)

 

[Duncan Mowlem]

it seems the extended bolts that came with my spacers will not accept the vw centre cap used with the steel wheels..
so as it stands i can have the spacers on but no centre cap in my new winter steel wheels or no spacers and the centre cap fitted.....???

 

[Grim Reaper]

I got some like this for my steels, make sure of the length though, they come in different sizes.
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