Thread: Trivia question-Nuts on Spare wheel carrier

Originally Posted by Pippin

Page 170 in mine LRL 0322AUS. The "Do not use...." was not relevant to me as I had a steel spare. However I have just fitted 8" LR wheels off my spare D2 I use for parts and now have an alloy spare fitted so useful info.
Cheers
Nick

Page 204 on mine with the same warning, however there is no mention about the outward dimple to distinguish which nuts are which.

The odd thing with my disco is that when I purchased it, it was a one owner, 145,000 clicks with a full service history.

It was bog standard as if it had just left the showroom, so I doubt that the wheel nuts would have been changed.
And as I mentioned above, the only dimple nut on mine would have been the security nut replacement.

It would have been far more prudent for LR to have used a completely different thread for the spare so as the nuts could not be changed.

Originally Posted by AndrewMilne

Hi Pippin,
The manual I am talking about is the Discovery Owner's Handbook (the one that people usually keep in the glovebox). The book is A5 format (half of an A4 sheet). Publication Part No. given in my previous post on this.

Perhaps the key sentence is:

"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 interchangeable."

Cheers, Andrew

I probably should have a look at that.

have owned the vehicle since 2004!