IXLR8

On my BMW motorcycle with 17 mm wheel bolts, I would use matt black plastic caps from VW to cover the hex heads. Unfortunately, I have not come across those in a 19 mm size.

AOW162435

More 19mm covers






Andreas

IXLR8

Oh no, not again!

After a sponsor/vendor PMed me with how much they were paying per month, I had to wonder why we even needed to buy a membership. Cripes, what an eye-opener that was.

JimPA

When I swapped on my winter wheels last week, several of the original black lug nuts looked a bit splotchy from age. Taking advantage of several recent days of warmer weather, I cleaned and then resprayed all the lug nuts using two coats of Eastwood chassis black, a semi-satin finish.

IXLR8

Andreas, have you tried any of them. I once had some 17 mm covers that were too loose on the hex head.

AOW162435

Negative.


Andreas

BobbyT

For a quick touch-up of any bright spots on your everyday black lug nuts, a black Sharpie marker works well, and looks good from five feet away...

coreseller

Hint taken.....

V

What about black anodizing?

FisterD

We have one set of polished and one set of satin in stock. They are $95 set.

chaoscreature

When I was restoring cars I found an old electric oven on the side of the road and bought the Harbor Freight Powdercoating gun + powders from Eastwood. I got excellent results from that kit, I did tons of small parts and the cost per part was almost negligible even amortizing the equipment. The high gloss silver "chrome" powder was actually quite good and decently reflective. Not "chrome good" but better than most spray paints.
I still have lots of powders in different colors so if anyone local wants to give powdercoating a shot (get wife permission first if using the house oven!) I will loan the gun out for free. I also have a small compressor you could borrow if needed.

BTW, when I moved the oven stayed behind, otherwise I would offer the service for cheap since its really not difficult to do.

kilodawg

Hey chaos do you have any personal experience with the durability of powder coated lugnuts? Just wondering what the real world experience has been..

IXLR8

Andreas, I'm going to go that route.

I'll lightly glass bead my lug nuts at work and then use those nice plastic caps to cover them up.

They'll always look good that way.

chaoscreature

I never actually powder coated lug nuts, I always bought the chrome ones for our Muscle Cars.
Powdercoating is pretty durable however it is a little bit brittle so it might not take well to an impact hammer, but then paint won't either. I did a lot of door/hood hinges, miscellaneous brackets, valve covers, that sort of thing.

I wonder what the cost would be to run a batch of lug nuts through an Aluminum Titianium Nitride coating process. This leaves a matte black finish and is found on some new cutting tools. TiALN coating would probably be the ultimate black lug nut finish. Anyone know a source?

keithgreer

Do our cars use ball seat or conical lug nuts?