Thread: Wheel Nut Covers!!!!

If you can undo all your wheel nuts with the supplied brace then you no longer have a lock nut.

The cover on the lock nut would just spin and you would never get the lock nut off if it was still in place.

Hi guys,

you have 3 nuts

read this thread..

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/discovery-...ts#post1254205

I Strongly recommend you swap those road wheel lock nuts on each of the 4 wheels for standard road wheel nuts.

Then swap the 1 lock nut on the spare wheel for a standard "spare" wheel nut)

IIRC the one covering the locking nut has an indent in it, not a dome. Though I could be wrong... Either way, it will be the one different to the rest.

The concave cover is a road wheel locking wheel nut cover, and the domed cover is a spare wheel locking wheel nut cover.

And the spare wheel nuts are not road wheel nuts! They are not interchangeable!

I have now read the thread on having 3 nuts and my owners handbook. I have no nuts with an indent but found 2 nuts with domes on a road wheel. Now here's the confusing bit, I verniered the dome and normal nuts and, apart from the dome in the alloy cover, they are all the same size, depth, thread depth, weight (206 grams), colour, etc. Unless it is the steel, I cannot find any difference. Maybe a previous owner fixed 2 spare alloys covers onto 2 normal nuts?

Love these threads....I changed my wheels on the weekend took off the steel rims with the Micky's and put back the alloys. Didn't bother with the locknuts (which by the way have an indent) and put the other nuts on (flat topped and domed) on the wheels.

The domed one is a spare wheel mounting nut ....

From the owners manual

"DO NOT use the spare wheel securing nuts
in place of the road wheel nuts, or use the
road wheel nuts to secure the spare wheel
- the nuts are not inter-changeable."

... these are domed.

It goes on to say ...

"LOCKING WHEEL NUTS
Vehicles fitted with alloy wheels may be
equipped with a locking wheel nut on each
wheel (including the spare). The locking wheel
nut covers are visually very similar to standard
wheel nuts but can be identified by a concave
indent on the surface. The locking wheel nut
and cover can only be removed using the
special tools provided"

.... or so says the owners manual !

Easiest way is get rid of all the locking wheel nuts on the road wheels.

Keep your spare wheel locknut if you fear your spare wheel might get stolen. That means keeping the locknut tool in the toolkit ... so carry 1 or 2 of the old road wheel locknuts as spares just in case.

Concaved head = road wheel locknut

Convex (domed) head = spare wheel locknut

Flat head = standard road wheel nut.

... if your standard road wheel locknutnut has a domed head, someone may have at some time swapped (inadvertantley) the caps between the road wheel & spare wheel locknuts.