Hello. (2003) Are those wheel nuts with a dimple only for the spare tire hanger thread ?

Any equivalent / interchange nuts (for the hubs) to be sourced from a wreck yard, open ended or not, without the beauty shell wrap clad ? BMW ? Volvo ? Honda ?...

And... What is the conical end section at the nut for ? There is nothing conical to seat on. The nuts removed from my wheels have no friction marks at all at the cone as of 'seating' or contacting to any conical surface. Is this another joke from LR ?
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----> If the nut does not use/need a cone, any 14mm x 1.5 ¿? threaded nut that seats on the ridge should work. ...Or am peeing out of the can ?

 

The spare tire rims are normally steel rims while most of the regular rims are alloy so the lug nuts are quite different. If you can locate some solid wheel nuts, they are a lot less problematic than the stock ones with the chrome covers, the chrome ones get water under them and will rust, causing the chrome to bulge. Lug wrenches won't fit anymore and breaking the covers off will make them a smaller size, also requiring a smaller lug wrench. Keep in mind the D2 lug bolts are a different size than the D1 model.

 

IIRC the ones with the dimple are threaded all the way through and the ones without are not....or vice versa.

As far as the chrome caps, IMHO just lose them. I took the chrome caps off, soaked the lugs in vinegar to strip off the zinc coating, then I gave them a blacksmith style blacking by heating them and then dunking them in used motor oil. It was my first time using this method for blacking and I am not entirely thrilled. I will probably sandblast them and then parkerize and paint them.

Once the chrome caps are off you will need a lug wrench 1mm smaller in size.