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These wheels my buddy has that I LOVE almost fit my bolt pattern. Every stud lines up and almost goes in the holes on the wheel. I could probably get away with just drilling out only 1 or 2 holes to make it work. I'm not talking about making new holes, I'm just talking about making 2 of thee existing holes larger. Has it been done, will it be safe?
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by no means take my advice on drilling out wheels, but i know that over time those wheels might start to vibrate or come loose, but then again im no expert1999 White Pontiac
A4, slp loudmouth, pacesetter headers, ws6 wheels, SLP cold air kit, wings west kit
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Sounds risky to me to do it yourself by drills a couple of the holes. If the bolt pattern isn't exact, then none of the holes are right. We've had a few rims sent off and professionally redrilled. ...never heard anything negative on those.
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Personally I wouldn't go for it. Our lug nuts are tapered to go into the recess on the wheels, the recess is a matching taper, just inverted. This gives the lug a good ammount of surface contact area. Now you might not run into any trouble with a drilled out (enlarged) hole, but the lugs aren't going to match up with the entire tapered recess in the wheel, if it even has a taper when the drilling is complete. Usually people drill all the way through, thus removing the taper.
I'm inclined to believe that you'd want as much surface area securing the wheels as possible. First time you lock it up, or spin the tires, the torque applied on each stud is gonna try to shear it off. JMO though.~Chris<br />1999 Hugger Orange Camaro<br /> <a href=\"http://www.cardomain.com/ride/273836\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.cardomain.com/ride/273836</a> <br /><br />†…faith…hopeComment
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Yeah, thanks for the input, I will just not worry about it lol.Comment
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I don't want to scare you away from doing something you want done, but there's prolly a better way to go about getting that style wheel on your car, even if it costs a bit more.~Chris<br />1999 Hugger Orange Camaro<br /> <a href=\"http://www.cardomain.com/ride/273836\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.cardomain.com/ride/273836</a> <br /><br />†…faith…hopeComment
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i wouldn't do it... but i am interested... what do the rims look like? any pics?Comment
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