LVDell

Will do!

BTW....here are the bolt weights.

Stock bolt 3.30 ounces (93.55g)
Stock bolt for use with 5mm spacer kit 3.45 ounces (97.8g)
Rennline stud and nut 3.80 ounces of which 2.60 is the stud (107.7g/73.7g)

911SLOW

Great info! You even included the red hat bolts.

LVDell

Crap! Just got back from the liquor store and they don't have it. Just that entry level Russian Standard. No platinum

And that's really my only place to get it since the liquor stores are state run agencies.

911SLOW

From what I hear i think in US is easier to buy cocaine than cigarettes and drinks..

mooty

my studs are of balsa wood. no wt.

Backmarker

I have CDOC ones, they work with stock wheels and HREs

AllanJ

Apex here.

LVDell

Ah, the ever rare and pricey balsa wood option

CT03911

For DE types what is the point of studs?
I am missing something here and it can't be the 1/2 oz weight savings....is it?
If it is....you guys are sicker than I ever thought :-)
I have never had enough trouble changing wheels that I felt the need to go to studs.
Enlighten me please.

AllanJ

I change wheels a lot and I'm too lazy to use the aluminum wheel changing alignment rod all the time. I'd rather fire up the impact gun and zip, zip, zip, zip, zip all 5 nuts are off and the wheel is pulled off the car.

LVDell

What Allan says. I do enough wheel changes and brake pad and fluid changes that makes it SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO easy to dismount and mount the wheels without ever having to worry about rotor/wheel contact. Get tiring unbolting 2 lugs bolts, screwing in two wheel hangers, do the rest, and then reverse and redo for each wheel.

CT03911

Okay, I understand. I don't use wheel hangers though and do a pretty good number of wheel changes too.
I find if I squat in front of the wheel and brace the base of it with a toe I can spin all the lugs off with a gun and then just pull off the wheel.
Same deal to put it back on.
I guess I can see where it would be a little easier with studs but I have never bothered whith wheel hangers and not had any issues.
Thanks for the info. You guys now have me thinking....

SH || NC

+ you needn't worry about cross threading the bolt and damaging the wheel carrier (almost poka-yoke)
+ new wheels with different offsets don't require longer or shorter bolts

LVDell

Two EXCELLENT points that we failed to cover!

Strip a stud? $5 replacement. Strip the threads in the wheel carrier? $$$.

All various wheels (and spacers) work with no need to change bolts. Again, $$$.

Plus, all it takes is the wheel to fall off once and bang the inside of you wheel, chip a PCCB, damage the caliper, etc, etc, etc., and you quickly realize it's very nice to have the studs.

tdarby

i used to have them on my other car. i need them again, its the way the c ar should have been designed