Thread: Important BB6 wheel info

That's good news.

Hi All,

This thread did fill me with a degree of dread... Ive had my 5 since March 2011, they are the older tapered wheel nut type. Yesterday I took the 4 off the hubs, and checked them and the spare carefully. Very pleased to report all AOK.

The wheels have covered the order of 170,000 km (car done 336,500 km - and yes - timing belt service due and booked for Thursday) on all sorts of roads and tracks, although mostly bitumen; had three sets of tyres, currently General Grabber AT 265/65/17. Do the wheel nuts up to 140nm. Touching all the wood in reach, mine are fine.

Cheers,

Originally Posted by swarover

Hi All,

This thread did fill me with a degree of dread... Ive had my 5 since March 2011, they are the older tapered wheel nut type. Yesterday I took the 4 off the hubs, and checked them and the spare carefully. Very pleased to report all AOK.

The wheels have covered the order of 170,000 km (car done 336,500 km - and yes - timing belt service due and booked for Thursday) on all sorts of roads and tracks, although mostly bitumen; had three sets of tyres, currently General Grabber AT 265/65/17. Do the wheel nuts up to 140nm. Touching all the wood in reach, mine are fine.

Cheers,

Pretty easy to keep a check using a largish dentist mirror and torch laying alongside the wheel you can see the area at the back of the wheel clearly and by angling the torch beam across the wheel spoke you can pick anything out of the ordinary qui t clearly , saves pulling the wheel off . You cant the part of the wheel where the brake caliper is , I just used a bit of white marker on the wheel and just moved car until that part of wheel was clear of caliper , easy peasy .

When my BB6 wheels cracked it was only the back ones, both sides.
These were replaced & no further problems.
Jonesfam

HI All,
Seems here we go again.
I recently did antoher Vic. high country trip and before I left I studiously checked all the wheels , given the history it's something I do regularly, and found no cracks NB: these are the final version of the BB6 wheels. Whilst I was in the high country I found a rear with one crack. Today, after a very through inspection, I have found that all 4 wheels on the car have a least one minor crack I them. I must confess that the wheel I found a crack in whilst I was in Vic. was on the rear so I opted to leave it for the return journey home, it has propagated to 2 cracks similar to the one in the photo. In short I had 9 of the last version of the BB6 and I have now cracked 6 { one was replaced before the company closed}
SSoooooo... anyone got some steel 17's that want to sell LOL
regards
Brian

Or go for the BMW X5 17" wheels...

I'll second the X5 rims, and not just because I have a set with part-worn 245/70 Duratracs looking for a home. However the X5 rims need about $60 spent on special long shank nuts which I no longer have for my rims. Too far from Perth though.

Thanks guys,not a bad idea but I understand that the centre hole is a different size isn't?
Thanks Graeme, I didn't know about the different nuts required.
As you may well understand I now have a few reservations about any alloy wheels for offroad use.