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| LandRoverAnorak Member Since: 17 Jul 2011 Location: Surrey Posts: 11324  
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No, they're a straight swap. The studs will come up slightly shorter than you might expect but this is exactly how they would have come from the factory for both civilian and military models. It's not an issue as long as the nuts are torqued correctly - 170Nm.
I'm not sure about white wheel nuts  The best wheel nuts IMHO are the blackened, closed end offering from Wrington Engineering. Not cheap , though.
 Click image to enlarge Darren 110 USW BUILD THREAD - EXPEDITION TRAILER - 200tdi 90 BUILD THREAD - SANKEY TRAILER - IG@landroveranorak "You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought!" - Princess Leia |
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12th Oct 2021 5:44am |
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| Mo Murphy Member Since: 01 Jun 2008 Location: Letchworth Garden City, Herts Posts: 2267 
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Paddocks sell some quite nice closed zinc plated wheel nuts which are not expensive.
HTH Mo The Land Rover 90 - Many are called, few are chosen. 50 Shades of Pennine Grey |
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12th Oct 2021 11:20am |
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| big110 Member Since: 02 Nov 2016 Location: Sweeden Posts: 342 
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Gosh I love that color mate! So I’m going with white wheels. I don’t think the black nuts would look correct. Any suggestions? |
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12th Oct 2021 1:41pm |
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| LandRoverAnorak Member Since: 17 Jul 2011 Location: Surrey Posts: 11324
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Black wheel nuts are kind of the standard so I'm not sure that they wouldn't look correct
 I guess you could paint a set any colour that you like although they'd always likely be damaged in use. Beyond that, perhaps plated as Mo has suggested or bare stainless, which are also available off the shelf? Darren
110 USW BUILD THREAD - EXPEDITION TRAILER - 200tdi 90 BUILD THREAD - SANKEY TRAILER - IG@landroveranorak "You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought!" - Princess Leia |
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12th Oct 2021 2:42pm |
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| keith Member Since: 15 Aug 2012 Location: Edinburgh Posts: 2226 
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Great look Anorak and black nuts also
Keith |
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12th Oct 2021 6:53pm |
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| LandRoverAnorak Member Since: 17 Jul 2011 Location: Surrey Posts: 11324
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Thanks Keith. I've moved on from them now, though. I ultimately decided that they were too dark as most of the time you couldn't see the detail and so have gone with body coloured Boosts instead. Darren
110 USW BUILD THREAD - EXPEDITION TRAILER - 200tdi 90 BUILD THREAD - SANKEY TRAILER - IG@landroveranorak "You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought!" - Princess Leia |
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13th Oct 2021 7:47am |
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| RFT Member Since: 13 Nov 2010 Location: Cheshire Posts: 683 
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On my 130 have black steel wheels for summer tyres and off white steel wheels for winter tyres, nuts are just as they come ‘au natural’ looks fine on mine, but its a vehicle not a fashion accessory. 130 Puma HCPU with an Artica 240LR Demountable Camper
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13th Oct 2021 4:24pm |
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| kaney Member Since: 01 Oct 2018 Location: Bolton Posts: 232 
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I found I got steering wheel wobble around 50mph after changing from boosts to wolf then after investigating I found a few rubber bushes were on the way out and the front swivel seals needed changing but for the difference I never had any wobble with the alloys maybe just coincidence but all is fine now I also swapped the front wheels to the back after doing the seals so I cannot say what caused it but it did show I had an issue with swapping from alloy to steel
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13th Oct 2021 5:47pm |
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| keith Member Since: 15 Aug 2012 Location: Edinburgh Posts: 2226
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Everything one needs to know about wolfs. 28 pages.
https://www.defender2.net/forum/topic55943...preciation |
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13th Oct 2021 6:25pm |
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