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Old 05-06-2014, 03:31 PM
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Best I've found for a set of 5 is $125 on e-Bay. Anyone know of any better? None of the generic one's at the parts stores will work, unless someone found one, in which case I'd love to have a part #!
 
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just regular acorns for aftermarkets or the big ones for stock d2 rims?
 
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Old 05-06-2014, 03:45 PM
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the regular 14mm x 1.5pitch acorns are less than 20 per 5 set
 
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Old 05-07-2014, 08:51 AM
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Acorns won't work. They need to have the collar. Running these 16" hurricane rims:

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The collar around the nut is what secures the rim. The acorns I tried from AutoZone were the right thread pitch & diameter, but you could pull the wheel off right over them.
 
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I see.
those big nuts drive me nuts. good luck. surprised you found anything, at all.
 
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Old 05-07-2014, 12:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Dan7
Best I've found for a set of 5 is $125 on e-Bay. Anyone know of any better? None of the generic one's at the parts stores will work, unless someone found one, in which case I'd love to have a part #!
I got a genuine LR set on Ebay a few years ago, I think I got them for $85. They came in a plastic carry box with the LR logo on it and even had a set of white cotton gloves so you won't soil your hands while changing tire I guess. 5 nuts and the key socket came in the box.

One caveat you should consider. Even though I routinely told tire shops to not use the air wrench for zipping lug nuts on and off they sometimes did and the last time ruined one of my locking nuts as the key shaped metal insert inside the locking lug nut socket twisted out of it's mount. They couldn't figure out a way to remove the nut and I was pissed and took my car home and the only way I could get that locking nut off was to pound an old over-sized 6 pt socket onto the rounded shape of the locking nut until it was jammed on and then remove the nut. So if you get these I suggest you remove them yourself before getting tires worked on and put them back on afterwards.
 
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Old 05-07-2014, 01:07 PM
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Just pulled the trigger on these:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/LOCKING-WHEE...item334d4b8af1

New set of 5...shipping was about $25 from UK, so that's not the best, but it's still $50 cheaper than the cheapest USED OEM set. Doesn't come with cotton gloves though.
 

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