I took my Land Cruiser in for a service and they said that one of the tyres on the LC is the spare, and would I want them to put the original tyre back on.
I said yes please but got a call a few hours later asking where my wheel brace was, because the wheel nuts were non-standard, supposedly so the wheels/rims couldn't be nicked.
I had no idea as I hadn't ever used it. I don't even know if I received it when I bought the Cruiser 2nd-hand 3 years ago.
They checked all the tyre shops here in Rockhampton but no one had the correct wheel brace.
I have (hopefully) attached two photos showing the wheels. Can anyone offer advice about what I need to purchase so I can change the tyre if needed?
Rex, You've had a close shave - better to find this issue in town, rather than out in the bush away from assistance.
You need both adaptor tools; a problem with non-standard wheels & you have two different wheels as well. Did you not detect the issue when you bought the car?
Tony Bev said
09:55 PM Jul 11, 2020
I am not a tyre fitter, or mechanic, just a retired normal Fitter
I know them nuts as spline drive nuts so you will require a spline drive socket
They come in different diameters, and different number of splines, and probably different manufacture brands
As you say that your local tyre shops, do not have them I would go along to your local/Supercheap/Repco/Auto One/ Auto Barn, etc
If you ask their young eagle eyed assistants, to count the number of splines, and measure the outside diameter, they should be able to order a spline socket for you
You will then obviously, require a socket breaker bar, to undo and redo, your wheel nuts
Whatever else you do, I would not be travelling without that tool, to change your wheels, because it is not a socket, that people would carry, in their toolbox
Jaahn said
08:47 AM Jul 12, 2020
rexboggs5 wrote:
I have a somewhat unusual problem.
I took my Land Cruiser in for a service and they said that one of the tyres on the LC is the spare, and would I want them to put the original tyre back on.
I said yes please but got a call a few hours later asking where my wheel brace was, because the wheel nuts were non-standard, supposedly so the wheels/rims couldn't be nicked.
I had no idea as I hadn't ever used it. I don't even know if I received it when I bought the Cruiser 2nd-hand 3 years ago.
They checked all the tyre shops here in Rockhampton but no one had the correct wheel brace.
I have (hopefully) attached two photos showing the wheels. Can anyone offer advice about what I need to purchase so I can change the tyre if needed?
Thanks heaps in advance and Cheers
Rex
Hi Rex
You have a small problem which will be a VERY LARGE PROBLEM if you do not fix it soon. The two pictures showed two different wheels, one had wheel 'bolts' with spline drive heads, the other still had a hub cap cover on I believe, so we do not know what screws or bolts or nuts it has. I think you had better go to a mechanic or a bigger tire place or similar and get someone to look at them and tell you what you need. Then replace them with a common type of wheel screw or nut. If you have a puncture or a tire failure at the moment you will be stuffed as no one can remove them. Find a person there NOW and fix it while you are in a large town. I do not think you know enough to rely on a forum to correct your problem.
If the screw heads are not standard spline drive sizes then contact me and I could give you a supplier overseas that will supply the correct socket for any security wheel nut or screw. I have used them to get a socket for a car I bought without the correct tool to remove the security wheel screws(some owners are stupid !). There are obviously checks to do to obtain them and a cost but better than other ways here in Australia, I could find. I removed all of the them after I received the tool and fitted the standard screws. My mag wheels are still on my car and have not been stolen
Jaahn
SouthernComfort said
08:54 AM Jul 12, 2020
It brings the roadworthy inspection into question. The mismatched wheels and nuts, plus the absence of a wheel brace should have scored a fail at that time.
yobarr said
09:21 AM Jul 12, 2020
rexboggs5 wrote:
I have a somewhat unusual problem.
I took my Land Cruiser in for a service and they said that one of the tyres on the LC is the spare, and would I want them to put the original tyre back on.
I said yes please but got a call a few hours later asking where my wheel brace was, because the wheel nuts were non-standard, supposedly so the wheels/rims couldn't be nicked.
I had no idea as I hadn't ever used it. I don't even know if I received it when I bought the Cruiser 2nd-hand 3 years ago.
They checked all the tyre shops here in Rockhampton but no one had the correct wheel brace.
I have (hopefully) attached two photos showing the wheels. Can anyone offer advice about what I need to purchase so I can change the tyre if needed?
Thanks heaps in advance and Cheers
Rex
Those nuts are sold as "lock nuts" or some such name,and are the same as I once bought from Autobarn.They are supposedly an anti-theft device,and there should be only one per wheel,I believe? When I once lost the supplied adaptor that allows an ordinary wheel brace to be used to remove these nuts,I simply drove to the local Autobarn shop,the young fella in attendance looked at the nuts,went inside,and returned with the necessary adaptor.CU later! However,I can see absolutely no need to use more than one per wheel,and the shafts of these nuts often are smaller in diameter than the shafts on the factory nuts,meaning they do not securely 'hold, the wheel in place.This is not a problem if you have hub-centric wheels,which you appear to have,but if your wheels are lug-centric,you will regularly break wheel studs.As suggested,simply use ordinary wheel nuts.Cheers.
Jaahn said
03:50 PM Jul 12, 2020
SouthernComfort wrote:
It brings the roadworthy inspection into question. The mismatched wheels and nuts, plus the absence of a wheel brace should have scored a fail at that time.
Hi
Sorry but that statement is BS. That is only a drivers responsibility not a car safety matter. We do not live in such a nanny state that common sense is absent completely and we have to blame the roadworthy inspector for everything Perhaps he should be held responsible for the colour too or the dirty windows !!
Jaahn
Whenarewethere said
04:42 PM Jul 12, 2020
A lot of cars these days don't have a spare so why bother with a spanner.
I helped one car in the outback, very old tyres on the car, spare was flat & even older, stone through a tyre, no form of recovery, plenty of stress on the owners' faces!
3 plugs later repaired the tyre & pumped up the spare (someone else's compressor failed, had not ever been used)...... They said they would buy 5 new tyres & recovery gear as soon as they got to town. Which I'm pretty sure they would do after the reality of their predicament!
Bookleaf said
05:17 PM Jul 12, 2020
Is it me or does the first wheel have an 8 stud pattern and the second a 5 stud pattern? If that is so, those rims are not going to fit on the alternate hub - ever. Bigger Do-Do.
-- Edited by Bookleaf on Sunday 12th of July 2020 05:17:31 PM
Warren-Pat_01 said
06:08 PM Jul 12, 2020
Hi bookleaf,
I think that cap that you see in the first pic is possibly a push on cap with the real studs underneath. It's interesting enough!
Howeverm just looking at the differences with the amount of metal between the spokes & the centre of the wheel, makes it something to stay well away from. Something like those toy spares they put in some cars.
Tony is correct about the road-worthy issue.
yobarr said
06:20 PM Jul 12, 2020
Bookleaf wrote:
Is it me or does the first wheel have an 8 stud pattern and the second a 5 stud pattern? If that is so, those rims are not going to fit on the alternate hub - ever. Bigger Do-Do.-- Edited by Bookleaf on Sunday 12th of July 2020 05:17:31 PM
Hi Kevin....perhaps the wheels are for illustration purposes only? The second picture shows a wheel that is very similar to those fitted to VE SS Commodores.Cheers
Bill B said
07:00 PM Jul 12, 2020
You sure it isn't the same wheel with and without the centre cap.
Aus-Kiwi said
10:45 PM Jul 12, 2020
Chances are an Allan key socket will work ? https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/262803379264
Jaahn said
08:15 AM Jul 13, 2020
rexboggs5 wrote:
I have a somewhat unusual problem.
I took my Land Cruiser in for a service and they said that one of the tyres on the LC is the spare, and would I want them to put the original tyre back on.
I said yes please but got a call a few hours later asking where my wheel brace was, because the wheel nuts were non-standard, supposedly so the wheels/rims couldn't be nicked.
I had no idea as I hadn't ever used it. I don't even know if I received it when I bought the Cruiser 2nd-hand 3 years ago.
They checked all the tyre shops here in Rockhampton but no one had the correct wheel brace.
I have (hopefully) attached two photos showing the wheels. Can anyone offer advice about what I need to purchase so I can change the tyre if needed?
You know the discussions go on and on and on, and are fueled by two things. Firstly the original poster asks a question and then never comes back to answer any queries or give feedback. WTF do they want ??????
Secondly some other posters give answers that show they never read the earlier posts or looked at the pictures and have no idea what they are talking about. Has anyone ever seen a wheel on a Landcruiser with 8 studs ??? and the second wheel with only 5 studs ??? And the tire place was going to swap them. Hmm possibly a reality check by a 5 year old would be better than asking on here. I give up posting with sensible reasoned answers.
Jaahn
-- Edited by Jaahn on Monday 13th of July 2020 08:30:24 AM
Cupie said
08:26 AM Jul 13, 2020
Jaahn wrote:
rexboggs5 wrote:
I have a somewhat unusual problem.
I took my Land Cruiser in for a service and they said that one of the tyres on the LC is the spare, and would I want them to put the original tyre back on.
I said yes please but got a call a few hours later asking where my wheel brace was, because the wheel nuts were non-standard, supposedly so the wheels/rims couldn't be nicked.
I had no idea as I hadn't ever used it. I don't even know if I received it when I bought the Cruiser 2nd-hand 3 years ago.
They checked all the tyre shops here in Rockhampton but no one had the correct wheel brace.
I have (hopefully) attached two photos showing the wheels. Can anyone offer advice about what I need to purchase so I can change the tyre if needed?
Thanks heaps in advance and Cheers
Rex
Hi
You know the discussions go on and on and on, and is fueled by two things. Firstly the original poster asks a question and then never comes back to answer any queries or give feedback. WTF do they want ??????
Secondly other posters give answers that show they never read the earlier posts or looked at the pictures and have no idea what they are talking about. Has anyone ever seen a wheel on a Landcruiser with 8 studs ??? and the second wheel with only 5 studs ??? And the tire place was going to swap them. Hmm possibly a reality check by a 5 year old would be better than asking on here. I give up posting with sensible reasoned answers.
Jaahn
I think that 'Rex' is just sitting back laughing at 'The Experts'.
The 8 studs is an absolute give away ( a quick search suggests 4, 5 or 6 on various models maybe but 8?).
Disclosure .. I've never looked at a Cruiser's wheel studs.
He's pulling your chain IMHO.
edit ... Does the nice looking cap with the eight rather small fixings just cover the (presumably 5 to match the other one) wheel nuts? Surely that's the answer to the riddle.
BTW to go off topic as I often do .. I vaguely recall that a car that I had many years ago had LH threads perhaps on the kerb side wheels. Was that common?
-- Edited by Cupie on Monday 13th of July 2020 10:10:01 AM
-- Edited by Cupie on Monday 13th of July 2020 10:14:31 AM
SouthernComfort said
08:59 AM Jul 13, 2020
Jaahn wrote:
SouthernComfort wrote:
It brings the roadworthy inspection into question. The mismatched wheels and nuts, plus the absence of a wheel brace should have scored a fail at that time.
Hi
Sorry but that statement is BS. That is only a drivers responsibility not a car safety matter. We do not live in such a nanny state that common sense is absent completely and we have to blame the roadworthy inspector for everything Perhaps he should be held responsible for the colour too or the dirty windows !!
Jaahn
Jaahn, calm down a bit mate, no need to be so aggressive. Bringing a RW into question is not "BS" as you eloquently put it, it is totally legitimate. Either the OP is having a lend of us and the wheels as pictured belong to two different cars, OR they weirdly do belong to the same car in which case they are mismatched (i.e. 2 different wheel types on the same axle assuming the there is only one 'problem' wheel in question). If it's the latter, and it was in that condition when the car was purchased (and consequently RW inspected) as implied in the OP, it wouldn't pass a RW inspection in this state, and I suspect same applies in others.
STRETCH ARMSTRONG said
09:35 AM Jul 13, 2020
Hey everyone.,
I believe the ATX American racing wheels are just the standard 6 stud landcruiser pattern, (second picture).
The first picture shows the pretty cap to make it look nice. A newer version of that mag and a similar cap are both on their sellers Australian site.
So the question remains, what are the wheel nuts used on rexboggs5 wheels? There are some good suggestions, but it would be nice for the op to contribute to the discussion,
Ok so l just went and looked up wheel nut types and these nuts came up look at style 5&7 of the 9 types
I believe the ATX American racing wheels are just the standard 6 stud landcruiser pattern, (second picture).
----__________________________________
Hmm once again another person who did not look at the picture correctly. I counted 5 studs, second picture, which is the current pattern.
Jaahn
STRETCH ARMSTRONG said
11:19 AM Jul 13, 2020
Mmmm ok so its 5 stud All my cruisers were 6 stud so my mistake,
Stretch.
Whenarewethere said
01:56 PM Jul 13, 2020
Aus-Kiwi wrote:
Brilliant.
rexboggs5 said
09:51 PM Jul 15, 2020
Hi Folks
A big thanks for all of the replies, and a big apology for the delay in my replying. I didn't see a reply when I first looked and I thought I would get an email if someone did reply, so I didn't check again until tonight. I've learned my lesson, and will be more vigilant in the future.
So ...
When I returned to Rocky I went to a tyre place and they were able to sell me a socket that fits the nuts on the spare wheel (2nd photo). But I wasn't sure what to do about the other tyres.
Today I went to a different tyre place and the lady behind the counter said you need an allen key (as noted by whenarewethere in the first reply to my thread). I thought I needed a wheel spanner (not an allen key) so I looked in the glove box and there it was! So I was able to remove the wheel cover in the 1st photo with the allen key. And the nuts behind it are the same as those for the spare wheel.
Bottom line: I will go back to that tyre place tomorrow and ask them what if anything I have to do/buy to ensure that I won't get stuck on the side of the road if I have a flat tyre. I think I have what I need, but I will check to be sure.
Thanks again for your valuable advice, and I will be sure to frequently check for replies when I ask questions in the future.
Cheers, Rex
Tony Bev said
11:52 PM Jul 15, 2020
Glad to see that you have got it all sorted, Rex
Also glad that you found this problem, while you were in a town, and not out on the road
rexboggs5 said
07:35 AM Jul 16, 2020
I'm glad as well! Thanks Tony.
Jaahn said
11:20 AM Jul 16, 2020
rexboggs5 wrote:
Hi Folks
A big thanks for all of the replies, and a big apology for the delay in my replying. I didn't see a reply when I first looked and I thought I would get an email if someone did reply, so I didn't check again until tonight. I've learned my lesson, and will be more vigilant in the future. So ... When I returned to Rocky I went to a tyre place and they were able to sell me a socket that fits the nuts on the spare wheel (2nd photo). But I wasn't sure what to do about the other tyres. Today I went to a different tyre place and the lady behind the counter said you need an allen key (as noted by whenarewethere in the first reply to my thread). I thought I needed a wheel spanner (not an allen key) so I looked in the glove box and there it was! So I was able to remove the wheel cover in the 1st photo with the allen key. And the nuts behind it are the same as those for the spare wheel. Bottom line: I will go back to that tyre place tomorrow and ask them what if anything I have to do/buy to ensure that I won't get stuck on the side of the road if I have a flat tyre. I think I have what I need, but I will check to be sure. Thanks again for your valuable advice, and I will be sure to frequently check for replies when I ask questions in the future. Cheers, Rex
Hi Rex
Glad to hear you have sorted it out with out being stranded with a puncture in the sticks. Good work. My suggestion would still be to get rid of the splined "nut" and get standard ones that have on their landcruiser. Then they can help you where ever if you need it. We all live and learn if we keep alert.
I did send you a PM if you wanted to look at that. For your interest you can go to your PROFILE by clicking on your name up the top right to see the PM. While there you can also change your SETTINGS so you will get emails in different circumstances as you want or indeed turn them off. Have a look at that perhaps.
Jaahn
Whenarewethere said
11:54 AM Jul 16, 2020
I agree with Jaahn. You really need standard parts in the outback so everyone can help everyone as best as possible. Chuck the nuts & get standard nuts. If someone wants your wheels they will take them regardless of what wheel nuts you have on.
PS. While at it get a tyre repair kit & compressor & TPMS to hopefully save a tyre before it is destroyed.
Whenarewethere said
12:01 PM Jul 16, 2020
Some of the tools I carry in the outback which have also helped others.
I have a somewhat unusual problem.
I took my Land Cruiser in for a service and they said that one of the tyres on the LC is the spare, and would I want them to put the original tyre back on.
I said yes please but got a call a few hours later asking where my wheel brace was, because the wheel nuts were non-standard, supposedly so the wheels/rims couldn't be nicked.
I had no idea as I hadn't ever used it. I don't even know if I received it when I bought the Cruiser 2nd-hand 3 years ago.
They checked all the tyre shops here in Rockhampton but no one had the correct wheel brace.
I have (hopefully) attached two photos showing the wheels. Can anyone offer advice about what I need to purchase so I can change the tyre if needed?
Thanks heaps in advance and Cheers
Rex
Closed End Spline Drive Tuner Nut Adaptor Socket.
The is an Allen key.
You need both adaptor tools; a problem with non-standard wheels & you have two different wheels as well. Did you not detect the issue when you bought the car?
I am not a tyre fitter, or mechanic, just a retired normal Fitter
I know them nuts as spline drive nuts so you will require a spline drive socket
They come in different diameters, and different number of splines, and probably different manufacture brands
As you say that your local tyre shops, do not have them
I would go along to your local/Supercheap/Repco/Auto One/ Auto Barn, etc
If you ask their young eagle eyed assistants, to count the number of splines, and measure the outside diameter, they should be able to order a spline socket for you
You will then obviously, require a socket breaker bar, to undo and redo, your wheel nuts
Whatever else you do, I would not be travelling without that tool, to change your wheels, because it is not a socket, that people would carry, in their toolbox
Hi Rex
You have a small problem which will be a VERY LARGE PROBLEM if you do not fix it soon. The two pictures showed two different wheels, one had wheel 'bolts' with spline drive heads, the other still had a hub cap cover on I believe, so we do not know what screws or bolts or nuts it has. I think you had better go to a mechanic or a bigger tire place or similar and get someone to look at them and tell you what you need. Then replace them with a common type of wheel screw or nut. If you have a puncture or a tire failure at the moment you will be stuffed as no one can remove them. Find a person there NOW and fix it while you are in a large town.
I do not think you know enough to rely on a forum to correct your problem.
If the screw heads are not standard spline drive sizes then contact me and I could give you a supplier overseas that will supply the correct socket for any security wheel nut or screw. I have used them to get a socket for a car I bought without the correct tool to remove the security wheel screws(some owners are stupid !). There are obviously checks to do to obtain them and a cost but better than other ways here in Australia, I could find. I removed all of the them after I received the tool and fitted the standard screws. My mag wheels are still on my car and have not been stolen
Jaahn
Those nuts are sold as "lock nuts" or some such name,and are the same as I once bought from Autobarn.They are supposedly an anti-theft device,and there should be only one per wheel,I believe? When I once lost the supplied adaptor that allows an ordinary wheel brace to be used to remove these nuts,I simply drove to the local Autobarn shop,the young fella in attendance looked at the nuts,went inside,and returned with the necessary adaptor.CU later! However,I can see absolutely no need to use more than one per wheel,and the shafts of these nuts often are smaller in diameter than the shafts on the factory nuts,meaning they do not securely 'hold, the wheel in place.This is not a problem if you have hub-centric wheels,which you appear to have,but if your wheels are lug-centric,you will regularly break wheel studs.As suggested,simply use ordinary wheel nuts.Cheers.
Hi
Sorry but that statement is BS. That is only a drivers responsibility not a car safety matter. We do not live in such a nanny state that common sense is absent completely and we have to blame the roadworthy inspector for everything
Perhaps he should be held responsible for the colour too or the dirty windows !!
Jaahn
A lot of cars these days don't have a spare so why bother with a spanner.
I helped one car in the outback, very old tyres on the car, spare was flat & even older, stone through a tyre, no form of recovery, plenty of stress on the owners' faces!
3 plugs later repaired the tyre & pumped up the spare (someone else's compressor failed, had not ever been used)...... They said they would buy 5 new tyres & recovery gear as soon as they got to town. Which I'm pretty sure they would do after the reality of their predicament!
Is it me or does the first wheel have an 8 stud pattern and the second a 5 stud pattern?
If that is so, those rims are not going to fit on the alternate hub - ever.
Bigger Do-Do.
-- Edited by Bookleaf on Sunday 12th of July 2020 05:17:31 PM
I think that cap that you see in the first pic is possibly a push on cap with the real studs underneath. It's interesting enough!
Howeverm just looking at the differences with the amount of metal between the spokes & the centre of the wheel, makes it something to stay well away from. Something like those toy spares they put in some cars.
Tony is correct about the road-worthy issue.
Hi Kevin....perhaps the wheels are for illustration purposes only? The second picture shows a wheel that is very similar to those fitted to VE SS Commodores.Cheers
Hi
You know the discussions go on and on and on, and are fueled by two things. Firstly the original poster asks a question and then never comes back to answer any queries or give feedback. WTF do they want ??????
Secondly some other posters give answers that show they never read the earlier posts or looked at the pictures and have no idea what they are talking about. Has anyone ever seen a wheel on a Landcruiser with 8 studs ??? and the second wheel with only 5 studs ??? And the tire place was going to swap them. Hmm possibly a reality check by a 5 year old would be better than asking on here. I give up posting with sensible reasoned answers.
Jaahn
-- Edited by Jaahn on Monday 13th of July 2020 08:30:24 AM
I think that 'Rex' is just sitting back laughing at 'The Experts'.
The 8 studs is an absolute give away ( a quick search suggests 4, 5 or 6 on various models maybe but 8?).
Disclosure .. I've never looked at a Cruiser's wheel studs.
He's pulling your chain IMHO.
edit ... Does the nice looking cap with the eight rather small fixings just cover the (presumably 5 to match the other one) wheel nuts? Surely that's the answer to the riddle.
BTW to go off topic as I often do .. I vaguely recall that a car that I had many years ago had LH threads perhaps on the kerb side wheels. Was that common?
-- Edited by Cupie on Monday 13th of July 2020 10:10:01 AM
-- Edited by Cupie on Monday 13th of July 2020 10:14:31 AM
Jaahn, calm down a bit mate, no need to be so aggressive. Bringing a RW into question is not "BS" as you eloquently put it, it is totally legitimate. Either the OP is having a lend of us and the wheels as pictured belong to two different cars, OR they weirdly do belong to the same car in which case they are mismatched (i.e. 2 different wheel types on the same axle assuming the there is only one 'problem' wheel in question). If it's the latter, and it was in that condition when the car was purchased (and consequently RW inspected) as implied in the OP, it wouldn't pass a RW inspection in this state, and I suspect same applies in others.
Hey everyone.,
I believe the ATX American racing wheels are just the standard 6 stud landcruiser pattern, (second picture).
The first picture shows the pretty cap to make it look nice. A newer version of that mag and a similar cap are both on their sellers Australian site.
So the question remains, what are the wheel nuts used on rexboggs5 wheels? There are some good suggestions, but it would be nice for the op to contribute to the discussion,
Ok so l just went and looked up wheel nut types and these nuts came up look at style 5&7 of the 9 types
https://www.homestratosphere.com/types-of-lug-nuts/
I think they just use a standard socket of the correct size on a breaker bar to remove.
Stretch
-- Edited by STRETCH ARMSTRONG on Monday 13th of July 2020 09:56:51 AM
Yes i saw the different wheel studs size . I thought he meant the nut type as on pics ? Pays to be mind reader . Sendin everyone. Nuts
-- Edited by Aus-Kiwi on Monday 13th of July 2020 10:09:06 AM
Mmmm ok so its 5 stud
All my cruisers were 6 stud so my mistake,
Stretch.
Brilliant.
A big thanks for all of the replies, and a big apology for the delay in my replying. I didn't see a reply when I first looked and I thought I would get an email if someone did reply, so I didn't check again until tonight. I've learned my lesson, and will be more vigilant in the future.
So ...
When I returned to Rocky I went to a tyre place and they were able to sell me a socket that fits the nuts on the spare wheel (2nd photo). But I wasn't sure what to do about the other tyres.
Today I went to a different tyre place and the lady behind the counter said you need an allen key (as noted by whenarewethere in the first reply to my thread). I thought I needed a wheel spanner (not an allen key) so I looked in the glove box and there it was! So I was able to remove the wheel cover in the 1st photo with the allen key. And the nuts behind it are the same as those for the spare wheel.
Bottom line: I will go back to that tyre place tomorrow and ask them what if anything I have to do/buy to ensure that I won't get stuck on the side of the road if I have a flat tyre. I think I have what I need, but I will check to be sure.
Thanks again for your valuable advice, and I will be sure to frequently check for replies when I ask questions in the future.
Cheers, Rex
Also glad that you found this problem, while you were in a town, and not out on the road
Hi Rex
Glad to hear you have sorted it out with out being stranded with a puncture in the sticks. Good work. My suggestion would still be to get rid of the splined "nut" and get standard ones that have on their landcruiser. Then they can help you where ever if you need it.
We all live and learn if we keep alert.
I did send you a PM if you wanted to look at that. For your interest you can go to your PROFILE by clicking on your name up the top right to see the PM. While there you can also change your SETTINGS so you will get emails in different circumstances as you want or indeed turn them off. Have a look at that perhaps.
Jaahn
I agree with Jaahn. You really need standard parts in the outback so everyone can help everyone as best as possible. Chuck the nuts & get standard nuts. If someone wants your wheels they will take them regardless of what wheel nuts you have on.
PS. While at it get a tyre repair kit & compressor & TPMS to hopefully save a tyre before it is destroyed.
Some of the tools I carry in the outback which have also helped others.
Thanks whenarewethere, your advice is very helpful. I have added those to my shopping list. And will organise to get standard nuts on the wheels.
Cheers
Rex
Is that top photo of a compressor? If so, which brand?
Rex