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Post by wurlycorner » Sun Apr 14, 2013 2:19 pm

Yeah excellent that they sorted it. Good thinking giving them the grief :D

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Post by andyconnolly » Sun Apr 14, 2013 2:57 pm

^^^^^^what it should look like and what it now looks like :lol: ^^^^^^^
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Post by honda-hardy » Sun Apr 14, 2013 3:46 pm

i hate tuner nuts. lightweight and weak.

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Post by andyconnolly » Sun Apr 14, 2013 3:48 pm

got some steel ones spare from the civic :) so they'll be going on now never had a problem with them :)
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Post by Lude-dude » Mon Apr 15, 2013 10:29 am

honda-hardy wrote:i hate tuner nuts. lightweight and weak.
I agree, how much weight do wheel nuts save anyway? bit of saftey concern that all these crappy nuts fill the market

I got some tuner nuts, but with some weight to them and seem pretty solid,

before I had some that seemed to be made of nothing, and cracked on me promptly :o
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Post by andyconnolly » Mon Apr 15, 2013 12:09 pm

i have muteki ones which feel solid and have never had a problem with so going to stick them on or might buy some new red ones:)
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Post by Merlin » Mon Apr 15, 2013 12:22 pm

honda-hardy wrote:i hate tuner nuts. lightweight and weak.
Only if you buy jobby ones. Muteki are forged steel 8-)
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Post by andyconnolly » Mon Apr 15, 2013 4:44 pm

Merlin wrote:
honda-hardy wrote:i hate tuner nuts. lightweight and weak.
Only if you buy jobby ones. Muteki are forged steel 8-)
The muteki ones are really good gonna take them off the civic and put them on the lude since the ludes all I'm driving just now
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Post by Merlin » Mon Apr 15, 2013 4:45 pm

Yeha I have 3 differnet sets of Muteki's. I once used alloy tuner nuts and almost lost a wheel.
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