standard wheel nuts on steel wheels?

[tezza08]

Hi all!

i just trial fitted a set of 16x8 sunnys on the tri using the standard wheel nuts off the alloys and was wondering if i need to find some different nuts if i was to run the steelies permantly the ones for the alloys have the taper machiend on them (to suit the spare i presume ) but they dont give me much confidence for the long haul

any info from you guys running steelies would be great

cheers tezza

[mattz]

Yes. You have to get a new set of nuts for the steelies.

[ag9111]

I cant see why you cant run them apart from the fact that they dont look right. They are machined to run a steel rim so why not. I have two sets of wheel nuts at home from an excel, designed for steel wheels and the machining looks exactly the same.
Happy to be provrn wrong though

[fridgie]

I was told you could use the same nuts by tyre fitter but went with new ones just to be safe.

[SEJ GLX-R]

I did have a second set of wheel nuts but I gave up & now just run the same for both steel & alloy rims

As ag said, they work but look wrong

[tezza08]

thanks for the info guys still not sure i like the sunnys yet might look into getting the alloys polished just for shits and giggles