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Can do but the wheel nuts wont locate properly
Modulars are quite cheap and look good, spacers safer but fit them yourself and follow instructions, dont let some ape with a wap gun rattle them on for you
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OK, I can understand your question, but firstly you must ask yourself why wheels are made to fit one way only.
you must look at why wheel nuts are made the way they are,
and you must ask yourself why wheels have a corresponding shape at the point the same shaped nuts fit into.
that sussed, you must ask yourself why should you ever want to fit wheels on any vehicle the wrong way round....
off subject slightly, back in the days of when drivers of the small bedford HA vans owned by the "post office" and the "british telecom" could change a flat tyre themselves, bedford vans were asked to make the wheel nuts with the same locating "shape" at each end, instead of the normal one end,
because they thought an Idiot would put the wheel nuts back the wrong way.
Errr, the same in principle as your "why cant I put wheels on wrong" question.
the back locating face of your/any wheel is flat for a reason,
to locate against the hub, so the "shaped" outer face you put "shaped" wheel nuts into can tighten up to hold the wheel on.....
so, apart from chucking your wheel nuts away as you drive, then lose you wheels as you go, the resulting fines for a dangerous vehicle would soon mount up into comical amounts quite quickly....
so unless you want to try all that, in a field, on your own,
then dont do it.............
be funny to watch though - get the cameras out lads...
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OK, I can understand your question, but firstly you must ask yourself why wheels are made to fit one way only.
you must look at why wheel nuts are made the way they are,
and you must ask yourself why wheels have a corresponding shape at the point the same shaped nuts fit into.
that sussed, you must ask yourself why should you ever want to fit wheels on any vehicle the wrong way round....
off subject slightly, back in the days of when drivers of the small bedford HA vans owned by the "post office" and the "british telecom" could change a flat tyre themselves, bedford vans were asked to make the wheel nuts with the same locating "shape" at each end, instead of the normal one end,
because they thought an Idiot would put the wheel nuts back the wrong way.
Errr, the same in principle as your "why cant I put wheels on wrong" question.
the back locating face of your/any wheel is flat for a reason,
to locate against the hub, so the "shaped" outer face you put "shaped" wheel nuts into can tighten up to hold the wheel on.....
so, apart from chucking your wheel nuts away as you drive, then lose you wheels as you go, the resulting fines for a dangerous vehicle would soon mount up into comical amounts quite quickly....
so unless you want to try all that, in a field, on your own,
then dont do it.............
be funny to watch though - get the cameras out lads...
That reminds me that Land Rover used to fit double ended wheel nuts to Royal Mail Land Rovers. Also the hard tops on those little red 88" Series III's had no little widows each side of the back door.
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The wheel will not sit flush to the drive flange and all the weight will be on the wheel nut lugs.
Dont do it and drive on it!
Im not sure why you would want to do it, but not sure of the circumstances either.
Dont do it and drive on it!
Im not sure why you would want to do it, but not sure of the circumstances either.
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Seems to me a sure way to chew up part of the threads on the wheel studs, maybe it could make the stud holes in the wheels stretch.
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Op I might be wrong, seems you want the wide boy look the cheap way rather than buying spacers? You do realise buy bringing out the rims you can wear your bearings out quicker costing you more money and time readjusting then to take up the wear
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Op I might be wrong, seems you want the wide boy look the cheap way rather than buying spacers? You do realise buy bringing out the rims you can wear your bearings out quicker costing you more money and time readjusting then to take up the wear
so will spacers
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Exactly, why else wouldn't you use spacers ?
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In his defence it's common with vans to do this even more so with double wheelbase cause you can then swap front to rear etc
Buts it's fairly obvious from the wheel nut shape you can't do it on landys
Buts it's fairly obvious from the wheel nut shape you can't do it on landys
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Second post by the op
spacers will have effect on wheel bearings so nothing gained ,you only need spacers to fit the wrong wheel or wrong offset
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Did you not understand my post the only reason I can think of as to not use spacers was to save money , then I pointed out that in affect he would
Get it now?
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